THE LESBIAN AND GAY NEWS MAGAZINE NO. 68
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NEWS
Nws.12
Out Takes.22
AIDS This Week.24
HEALTH
Political Science.28
DEPARTMENTS
Outspoken.4
Letters.5
Stonewall Riots..5
Sotomayor..6
Blurt Out.8
Jennifer Camper.10
Liberation Logic.30
Milestones.32
Look Out.45
Out of My Hands.46
Gossip Watch..47
Going Out Calendar..61
Tuning In.64
Dancing Out.65
Community Directory.66
Bar Guide.68
Classifieds.70
Crossword. XL
ARTS
VIDEO: Lookout Festival
Martha Gever makes heads and
tales of TO tapes . 50
VIDEO: Richard Fung
Karl Soehnlein interviews the
video-maker. . 52
BOOKS: David Leavitt
The author meets Maria Maggenti
for coffee and conversation.... 5 4
BOOKS: A Place I've Never
Been Christopher Davis on the
new collection . 57
POETRY: Leave or Die
Assotto Saint. . 58
FEATURES
Reign of Terror
Nina Rejms on the gay-bashing epi¬
demic, City Hall's response and
queer talk of guns . 34
Three anonymous queers drive
home some points about self¬
arming . 38
Mourning Becomes Diamanda
Robert Htiferty taBes wth Diamanda
Galas as she brings her
St.John the Divine .
Cem pMa ky Micfcaal wakafl
art* ptomrapM fry Tam
Camilla
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Fifthteen Minutes Per Week
Dear Mayor Dinkins.
When a majonty of lesbians and gay men voted for you last
year, we sent politicians in New York a dual message: that as
voters and citizens, we wont be taken for granted, and that we
have the voting strength to make a difference at election time.
And make a difference we did. Pollsters and pundits often
credit gays with deciding the contest in your favor But unfortu¬
nately, Mr. Mayor, since the election, your record on gay issues
has been nonexistent.
Despite your dtoppoantr^ start, we sd believe that you could
make a pcwove difference. Accordingly, we have a modest proposal.
Mr. Mayor, wc ask that you spend 15 minutes on the phone
each week, every week, advocating for gays and lesbians. That's
it—15 minutes per week. Imagine what you could accomplish.
When The New York Times writes an article about, say. the
Wigstock Festival but fails to mention that Wigstodt is a gay
event, you oould phone Editor Max Prankefs office:
"He*o, Max, this is the mayor. Why in hell did your people
write that damn Wigstock artide and leave out the gays? I’ve got
these people breathing down my neck. Max. They're a great pan
of my georgeous mosaic, and they keep telling me how the 71mes
ignores them. It isn’t fair, Max, and Fm taking a personal interest
in k." (Time elapsed: three minutes at most. Probable result sig¬
nificantly increased 7tmes coverage of gay issues and events.)
After hanging up, you might dial William Baker, president of
Channel 1VWNET, where gays and lesbians have been lobbying
unsuccessfully for their own weekly TV show.
*Hdk>, Bill, this is the mayor. I keep hearing from my numer¬
ous gay supporters that Channel 13 is refusing to produce a
weekly talk show for gays. You know, that isn't a lot to ask, BiB. I
remember when African Americans had no representation in the
media, and it was a bad situation. A weekly talk show isn't a lot
to ask from a viewer-supported TV station that’s licensed to serve
the public interest. 11 he watching this situation carefully, BiB Tm
sure there’s something you can do." (Tune elapsed three and a
half minutes. Probable result: a lesbian and gay show on 13 )
Having ardy spent six and a half minutes of your allotted 15,
you’d stil have eight and half minutes to call a sports stadium
that's dragging its feet on the Gay Games, a local insurance com¬
pany that's disenminating against people with AIDS, the chair of
American Express (which recently excluded gays from your bfue-
rifcbcn ‘unity' campaign) and the police commissioner to let him
know how concerned you arc about anti-gay assaults.
In just one morning, between cups of coffee, you could
move mountains. Using the power of your bully-pulpit week after
could assure yourself of our grateful support at those difficult
times when you need it most.
If this sounds like absurdly tale for us to ask, we're sure that
there arc other substantive things you could do as well. This is
Just a first step.
Please let us know when you plan to begin scheduling these
weekly 15 minutes of advocacy.
And if not, why not
[(TIERS
HYPERTHERMO-
NUCLEAR
Your recent coverage on
the hyperthermia treatment is
way out of line. You'll forgive
me if I'm not perfectly polite in
this letter (as you would
expect from an administrator),
but I'm fired up. So my ques¬
tion is. Who the fuck do you
think you are?l
This rag is an outrageous
propaganda tabloid that only
wants to perpetuate individual
agendas. Short of boldfaced
lies. Nina Reyes and Gabriel
RoMk> have been trying to take
away the right of PWAs to have
full investigations of the treat¬
ments for their conditions. The
articles you printed in this rag
are chastising Alonso and using
this individual's opportunistic
ways as justification for taking
away another treatment for peo¬
ple with AIDS. Does Nina Reyes
have AIDS? Does anybody real¬
ly give a damn about our oorxf-
tkxi physically or socially? Only
so far as It can make a buck or
get them a byfine. it seems.
Your raport from Nina
Reyes [*PWA Dies After
Undergoing Blood-Heating
'Cure,'* no. 60. Aug. 22]
excluded comments from the
only two New York doctors
who went to Atlanta. Drs. Joe
Sonnabend and Suzanne
Phillips. Instead, you quote a
lawyer from GMHC. Excuse
me. dear, but that shit won't
fly. Get Nina out of there, get
off the case of the Investiga¬
tion. and stop taking away
from PWAs one more feasible
line of hope.
As a person with AIDS
and KS, I stand with Mike
Calen and a lot of other PWAs
who demand that all treat¬
ments for AIDS be investigated
thoroughly, swiftly and to the
benefit of people with AIDS.
We don't care about Aisonso,
Reyes. Rotello or OutWeek
readers who need to believe
that this crisis is going to con¬
tinue until everybody’s person¬
al agendas are met My life is
at stake in these games you're
playing, and nobody asked me.
Don't use PWAs as a stepping-
stone in your pathetic careers.
Mike Callen retired, and
iVKke Hired) died—but not their
piss and vinegar spirits against
assholes like yourselves.
Bret Scott-Hartiand
Development Coordinator
People with AIDS of
Hew Jersey, Inc.
Fort Lee, NJ
Actually, Dr. Suzanne Phillips is
quoted throughout the ertcle.
Dr. Joseph Sonnabend could
not be reached for comment
prior to deadline, and no one
from GUHC is quoted at all.
The article drew no con¬
clusions about the efficacy of
hyperthermia and began with a
quote from Dr. Bernard Bihari.
who said that he believed that
the study of the treatment
should continue, despite the
fact that his patient died.
Instead of using Ms.
Reyes and the rest of us as
steppingstones for your own
misplaced anger, how about
dashing off a poison-pen note
to the tabloids in New York
City and elsewhere that never
bothered covering the story
at all7 If it were careers,
bucks and bylines we were all
after, we'd be at Vanity Fair,
rxrtOutWeek. Dear.
-Mews Ed.
RIOHT-WINO WAR
Three cheers for Nina
Reyes’ superb export. ’Smoth¬
ering Smut*
Two important points
went unmade, however.
First, unless I missed
something, Ms. Reyes says
nothing about the draconian
new ’anti-porno* law that
Helms, Thurmond etal. snuck
through the Congress in
1988. It puts everyone who
photographs the male or
fsmale nude at risk. It is
unconstitutional in a number
of ways, not ths least of
which is its forfeiture and
destruction provisions.
It also requires a photog¬
rapher to list on the product the
location of ths model releases
and proofs of age. (Hidden
right-wing message: In viola¬
tion of the 4th and 5th Amend¬
ments, which we think are
garbage anyway, you must tefl
us where to find you, so ws can
corns and destroy your work.)
Worst of all. for every
depiction of an ’obscene*
photograph made after early
1978, the photographer must
have on file two proofs of age.
one of which must be sn offi¬
cial photo ID. (Hidden right-
wing message: These pervert
photographers won’t ever be
able to track down the dope
addicts, whores and other
useless scum that they made
dirty pictures of 12 years ago.)
Ths definition of obscen¬
ity is so broad that even the
Michelangelo ’David* and
the ’Venus do Milo’ are
’obscene’ by its standards.
(Hidden right-wing message:
The human body and any
sexual act associated with It
other than the missionary
position with all the lights out
are shameful and disgusting.
and no ona should be
allowed to contemplate or
depict them.)
Most of this hideous law
was overturned by a Federal
District judge In Washington.
DC. but Thornburgh, of course,
has appealed to the Circuit
Court of Appeals. If Judge
Revercomb's ruling that this
hateful law is unconstitutional
ultimately is upheld by the US
Supreme Court the sponsors
of this homophobic and sex-
phohic atrocrty have vowed to
reintroduce it. minus the
retroactivity provision. One of
the eager supporters of this
bill, of course, was our
beloved Al D'Amato. the same
‘connoisseur* who publicly
destroyed a copy of the catalog
of the Mapplethorpe exhibition
on the floor of the US Senate.
The Miller decision criteria
require the material to be
‘utterly without redeeming
social value.' With the threat erf
AIDS hanging over every citizen
orf the United States of America,
our politicians, clerics and
physicians should all be active¬
ly encouraging the private, con¬
sensual autoerotic use of
graphic erotica, made by adults
♦or other adults. After all. you
cant catch AIDS from a Colt
photograph or a Falcon video.
Jerking off to pom is the
only truly safe sexual outlet
left for millions of Americans,
and these compassionleas.
self-appointed guardians of
our morals want to deny us
even that.
Every one of us needs to
send the self-righteous moral¬
istic prigs in seats of power the
same blunt message: Spend
our hard-earned taxpayer dol¬
lars to stamp out AIDS, not
*amuf I
Stop the right-wing war
against the right to be different!
George P PiUson
Manhattan
GANTT IS BETTER
The letter (‘Letters.* no.
64. Sept 19) objecting to my
advertisement in OutWeek
which criticized Harvey Gantt
only reinforces the need for
open confrontation of queer
issues by a candidate running
for public office. The letter
writer states that treating
‘gay* issues on a low-key
basis now is all right with him.
This is obvious from his
actions. He helped form NC
Senate Vote ‘90 and then
moved to pricey Greenwich Vil¬
lage—quite a move from Jesse
Helms’ emal town here in NC.
NC Senate Vote '90 has
indeed raised over $50,000,
according to their latest
reports, but not one penny has
been given to Harvey Gantt or
the Harvey Gantt campaign.
As a result of my Out-
Week advertisement, I have
been invited to meet with Har¬
vey Gantt and his wife on Oct
13 to discuss what he is going
to do for us queers.
It Is a matter of attitude
whether you see yourself as
oav or oueer.
The letter writer seems to
come from a gay conscious¬
ness. Gay is a conservative,
appropriate, yuppie, mellow,
passive and co-dependent-on-
a-heterosexlst-society word. It
means living in a fucking New-
Age Light Bubble, not facing
the reality of people with AIDS
dying by the minute, queer¬
bashing or all the other indig¬
nities put on us by a homo-
phobic society.
It takes a strong woman
or man with real character to
proclaim themselves to be
queer. It is a word with a real
edge, one that society under¬
stands. and wa as powerful
people can reclaim a word
which originally meant differ¬
ent from the usual. THANK
GOO FOR OUR DIFFERENCE.
The Nil of Right* allow*
u* to ba different, and we
mu*t constantly reinstate
thoee precious articles.
The queers of the world
need a leader, a Marlin Luther
Queen. I apologize for the ad
and realize that Harvey Gantt
is better than Helms. Harvey is
sweet, but he is not our
QUEER leader. I shouldn't
expect much from a Or.
Huxtable. Certainly not a cure
for AIDS, but maybe a Missoni
sweater or two.
Charles Merrill
Address Withheld
BASIST, FLEXIST,
ANTI-FEY
In response to Christo¬
pher Allen's gratuitous letter
[•Letter*.' no. 62. Sept. 15]
asserting that It is 'whites
who steal from Blacks.* Mr.
Allen chooses to ignore the
disproportionate amount of
gay-bashing from Blacks, not
to mention how easy It is to
lump the turnstile at 125th to
shoot down to the West Vil¬
lage. Many of us so-called
racist gay whites feel it Is
time for Blacks to 'direct*
some of that energy toward
policing homophobia within
their own community rather
than aiming that energy
against their white brothers.
If Mr. Allen is so dissatisfied
with OutWeek, he should
realize nothing Is stopping
Blacks from creating a gay
magazine of their own.
I am also disgusted by
Tracy Morgan’s letter ['Let¬
ters.* no. 60. Aug. 22] of
Ignorance, crying over how
gay men are to have this
enormous responsibility to
lee Mans' health concerns and
their so-called Invisibility
problem. The time has come
for these uneducated lesbians
to leam the facts. According
to the AIDS hotline for statis¬
tics (1-404-303-3021) there
have been a total of 140.822
reported case* of AIDS as of
July 31. 1990. Out of this
total number, 127,427 are
men. and of those. 64.241
are gay. The total number of
women infected is 13.395.
And while transmission
between two women through
sexual contact remains ques¬
tionable. gay men are
defamed as sexist for their
concern over their own health
iseues. It truly amazes me
how so many lesbians appear
to be jealous of how AIDS
has given gay men this
'glamorous* publicity. The
main reason gay men have
publicity at all is because so
much more negative [sic] is
produced about us in the first
place. I, as [sic] many, am
not impressed by movies
such as Longtime Companion
and An Early Frost labeling
gay men as disease carrying,
or Torch Song Trilogy with
Harvey Flerstein as a drag
queen, not to mention La
Cage aux Folles' degrading
and humiliating depiction of
gay lifestyle. Would such a
parody have been tolerated
about lesbians? Victoria A.
Brownstone ['Letters,* no. 64
Sept. 19] is another hysterical
lesbian full of hate against
men, particularly gay men
(unless of course they remain
'stereotypically* sub¬
servient). She completely
misses ths point Campion
Reed ['Letters,' no. 62, Sept.
5] was trying to make and
apparently feels it is accept¬
able for only women to use
vulgar profanity against men.
I must agree with Mr.
Berglund [-Letter*.* no. 62.
Sept. 5] that anti-male
rhetoric has not escaped the
attention of many gay men. I
must also mention it is not
gay men who 'need" lesbians.
I believe the staff of Out-
Week deserves outstanding
credit lor dedkating so much
time and effort to women's
Issues—even if the women
don't show appreciation.
James Gonsalves
Brooklyn
EQUAL
PARTICIPATION
I was very pleased by Liz
Tracy's excellent article on the
Harvey Milk High School. One
statement however, needs clar¬
ification, the sentence in which
It is said that Stave Ashldnazy
and Joyce Hunter were the co-
founders of the school.
There were many people
involved in setting up the Har¬
vey Milk High School program
including, but not limited to.
Wayne Stainmnan, David Bai¬
ley and myself at the Institute:
Lee Hudson and the late Peter
Vogel when we were having
problems finding space Ind
dealing with various govern¬
ment agencies and very
importantly, Steve Philips and
Marsha Shelton of the board
of education; and our first
teacher, Fred GokJhaber.
It is important to remem¬
ber that the school is not a
separate institution but a pro¬
gram of the Hetrick-Martin
Institute, much like our street
outreach to homeless youth
and juvenile prostitutes, our
drop-in center, our profes¬
sional education program
which includes speaking to
young people in the schools,
our advocacy programs and
al the other programs which
we have set up to serve our
youth. These programs do not
have ’co-founders." Rather,
they represent joint efforts by
all personnel in the agency
and often, as in the case of
the Harvey Milk High School,
by community and city agen¬
cies cooperating, in this
instance by providing the
educational services that are
the right of our young peo¬
ple. There is a long history of
the development of alterna¬
tive high school programs
through such cooperation.
It is important to give
credit to individuals who help
develop such vital services in
the community. But we must
be careful that in so doing, we
do not deny and hide the
equal participation of others.
A. Damien Martin, Ed.D.
Board Member and for¬
mer executive director.
The Hetrick-Martin
Institute. Inc.
JEWELLE’S JEWEL
I commend you for your
excellent coverage of the NY
Lesbian and Gay Experimental
Film Festival (no. 64. Sept 19J.
I liked Jewelle Gomez’s
comment that gay men will be
powerless until we no longer
fear intimacy. But I wonder
when that will be. And I won¬
der if straight men don’t fear
It—many people do.
We have lost our innate
sense of fellowship and natural
tendency to help each other.
Alvin Farin
Address Withheld
BLURRINQ THE LINE
Regarding your editorial.
'Click and the Times.’ in issue
no. 65 [Sept 26). you correct¬
ly mentioned that Deborah J.
Glick’s victory in the Sept. 12
Democratic primary was
largely ignored by The New
York Times.
You go on in the editorial
to say, ’People look to the
newspaper of record to pro¬
vide perspective on current
events, a p - spective that
forms the instant historical
account of our era...[f]or les¬
bians and gays, its failure is
institutional and chronic.’
Perhaps, since you are so
interested in historical per¬
spective. it would have been
appropriate to mention in your
editorial that Ms. Glick was
endorsed by the Times. Per¬
haps you also should have
mentioned that the Times
largely ignored the results of
all the Assembly races, not
just Ms. Glick’s race in the
65th District
While I, too. was disap¬
pointed in the Times primary
coverage on Sept 12. I can’t
agree that the Times did us
'inestimable harm.* Consider¬
ing the endorsement and the
fact that Ms. Glick’s own cam¬
paign materials trumpeted it
proudly. I’d say that all in ail.
they helped us on this one.
I understand that for Out-
Week, being angry and radkai
is important But for many of
us in the gay community,
being factual is just as impor¬
tant By blurring the lines, you
put your integrity at risk.
John Gilliam
Manhattan
TODAY I READ THE
BLURT
OUT
FRONT PORCH,
BACK PORCH.
LOCKER ROokl,
CLOSET...
When Boston Herald
•ports reporter Use Olson wee
washed over by the raw sewage
of sexism end pig-heedsdness
In the New England Patriots
tocher room tost weak, one
could Meralfy watch the hands
of tkne whir beck to the earty
Bronaa Age. But having
eoltocted the besot our
shattered crento, tot us now
examine what torttts earth this
Wtto imbrogao has tided up. A
number of gentlemen from the
they are. tn The Mew York
rimes, Rusaefl Baker seemed to
•pm wttdty In • soft locus
reverie: 'Schoolboys first
MARRY
The last time I wrote a
letter to a magazine was in the
late 70s. when I wrote a note
to Tiger Beat magazine asking
(under an assumed name, of
course), no doubt intimate
questions about my fave hunk
(at the time), Patrick Man
From Atlantis Duffy. I was no
more than 13 at the time. I
when they learn the )oy of
•Peking each other on bare
buttocks with wot towels. The
activity in tocher rooms of
professional athtotas cm* ba
more Intontlto, according to
traitors who have spa tod the
beans In print." And In the Osey
tows, Richard 0. Carter penned
this oonfeselonal: '{The locker
room] to where many players
ably since then.
All I want to say with this
rooms and routinely wait
•round naked. And It's also
rile. I’ve been an OutWeek
reader for nearly a year now,
and I can always count on Ns
column being interesting, even
if sometimes the rest of the
admittedly crude, boye-wtB-be-
boys variety." And you thought
this only happened In British
boarding echooto.
—8w»h Penn
magazine rant
As a member of ACT UP 1
Milwaukee and a PWA (not to
mention a basically pretty
pissed-off queer). I can’t
imagine not taking Michelan¬
gelo's side on virtually every
issue that he has tackled,
from the Chastity lunacy to
the shitty way he was treated
at the Queer Nation demo in
the Village. I have a bit of a
logistics problem with outing,
though nobody that Mike has
outed deserves anything but
what they got.
Not only do I respect the
man fully, but judging from
the few photos I've seen of
him, I think he's fucking
adorable. When I rave to my
friends about this or that
‘Gossip Watch* column, I
always refer to Mike as the
man I will one day marry*
(along with Michael Feinstein
and Keanu Reeves).
Keep up the good work.
Michelangelo, and don't let the
shitheads get to you. You’ve
definitely got some fans here
in the Midwest.
Timothy J. Nowak
Milwaukee. Wts
JERKING CLASS
DISTINCTIONS
I usually admire the
angry spirit if not always the
political conclusions, of
Michelangelo Signorile's
acid-tip-tongued ‘Gossip
Watch* column. However. I
have to take exception to last
week's column's comment
that Pete Hamill. Jimmy
Breslin and Andy Rooney
represent “working-class val¬
ues* (‘Gossip Watch,' no.
56. July 25). These racist,
misogynist, homophobic
windbags have never worked
a day in their lives. The Kfe of
the factory floor and its
grinding oppression is as
dose to their life experience
as straight sex is to ours.
What do they know about
working-class values?
Stgnoriie contends that by
replacing these reactionary
peddlers of journalistic racism
and homophobia, their bosses
are moving in a more enlight¬
ened progressive direction.
This is false. Perhaps Hamill
and Breslin will get the boot
onto the pavement But it's not
the Potts nor the Daily News'
owners' noble sentiment that is
responsible for these changes
Nor did the ‘sophisticated*
Teny McOonell at Esquut wake
up one morning and say. ‘Suit,
this homophobe Hamill has got
to go. Hell just so uncool' Get
over your illusions, Michelan¬
gelo! It's our queer nation act¬
ing up and demanding they
stop the gay-bashing drivel
that passes for acceptable edi¬
torial comment on the pages of
these media rags that is mak¬
ing the changes.
Furthermore, it’s not
working-class values that
murdered Yusef Hawkins or
James Zappalorti or beats up
and maims people of color,
women and lesbians and
gays; it's the racist, sexist,
homophobic and yes. dassist.
ideology of the ruling dass of
this country that spreads this
poison. When Breslin calls a
young woman Asian reporter
*a yellow cur* or Hamill beck¬
ons backward to his primeval
gorilla roots as a young gay-
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basher while watching us
march by strong, queer and
united in anger—these writ¬
ers are shedding their ‘liber¬
al* veneer, they are echoing
the reactionary sentiments of
the ruling class who hates
us. They try to publicize
through the pages of their
columns the attitude that it's
now OK to bash the under¬
class. to even kill us. Ths
recent upsurge in gay-bash¬
ings and the ten-year crimi¬
nal government record on
the AIDS crisis is their final
solution for the lesbian and
gay problem
Such sentiments have
nothing to do with working-
class values. Real working-
class values have always
stood on the politically cor¬
rect side of justice and the
fight against oppression. The
working class. Black and
white, gay and straight, has
been victimized and beaten
up like the coal miners In
Kentucky and Mark Curtis,
the young meat-packing
worker in Iowa, and the gay
and lesbian brothers and sis¬
ters now languishing in a
faderal prison in Washing¬
ton. DC. Eastern Airlines and
Greyhound workers and the
Dorsey (mostly Haitian gar¬
ment workers here in NY)
have all been attacked by the
cops. They have experienced
the same kind of violence by
the state and lies about their
struggles by the media
(which it controls) that we
have. Let’s not mistake real
*working- class* values and
allies for the phony preten¬
sions of the bigot journalists
and big business media who
uses them.
How do I know these
things. Michelangelo? Trust
my working-class instincts!
George Kontanis
Address Withheld
Michelangelo Slgeorlle
responds: George, as one
person who grew up with
‘working-class values' to
another. I don't think that I
have to tell you that one
need not engage in hard
labor to possess such val¬
ues. I don't mean to protect
those asinine columnists,
but I think it unfair to dis¬
miss their working-class
sentiments as bogus simply
by saying that they've never
worked a day in their lives
(which, tor all I know, may
not even be true). They all
certainly grew up In work¬
ing-class families.
As for who is responsi¬
ble for change. I totally agree
with you that it is the gay
community Itself—In fact,
some people would say that
my constant reiterating of
that fact in my column is
rather self-indulgent. So how
is It, then, that you claim I
don't recognue It?
Finally, though many in
the working class are. as
you say, mimicking ’the
racist, sexist, homophobic
and. yes, classist ideology
of the ruling class, ’ that
doesn 't free them of guilt. I
don't buy your excusing the
working class, and telling
me that it stands for the
politically correct side of
justice.’ Bullshltl Racism,
sexism and homophobia
were rampant In my
upbringing on Staten
Island. I got over it—cor¬
rection, I'm getting over it,
for I don't think one easily
rids oneself of those poi¬
sonous diseases, which—
though they Infect Palm
Beach, Beverly Hills and the
White House—are at epi¬
demic proportions in Ben¬
son hurst. Howard Beach
and lots of other working-
class neighborhoods.
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A
1
YET ANOTHER YOUNG INNOCENT
ABOUT TO BE SEDUCED INTO
THE EVIL WORLD OF CARTOONING... 1
SOME OF THE
PEOPLE, SOME OF
THE TIME
Monica Dorenkamp's
assertion [no. 60. Aug. 22]
that Spire Lee's latest movie
is not really about jazz is well
taken. Her assertion that as
one of the few auteur direc¬
tors in this country. Lee has
come of age is also wall
taken. I would Bke to add that
the fact that he is a Black
male makes his presence in
the movie industry even more
exciting and open to closer
scrutiny. But her implication
that Lee has made an attempt
at becoming mainstream and
thus ‘sold out* is illogical.
Sold out to whom?
Lee's movies are hardly
racist but they are still by. for
and about Blacks in America.
The only reason Spike Lee
has become more main¬
stream. as Dorenkamp says,
is because trendy, white, yup¬
pie and guppie so-caled pro¬
gressives think themselves
on the cutting edge by going
to see hie movies. But please
continue to go.
There may very well be
pressure on Lee to make
films which please everyone.
Besides the fact that this is
impossible. I really don’t
think that Lee gives a shit
whom his films please or dis¬
please. Say what you wi, Lee
has not yet compromised his
artistic integrity.
ft Moody
Miami, Fla.
ACCURACY ON
CABLE
Gabriel Rotello made a
mistake in his article [no. 66.
Oct 3] on the mess over at
Manhattan and Paragon
Cable. He cited that the inde¬
cency provision of the new
rules ‘threatened to wipe out
gay shows entirely.'
The fact is that Out in
the ’90s, The Stephen Holt
Show. The Brenda and Glen¬
da Show and Rick X's Closet-
Case Show al are shown on
channels not affected.
Don't get me wrong, the
demise of Channel J/23 is a
terrible injury to the free
speech accessibility of the
lesbian and gay community.
However, the overstatement
in OutWaek is not helpful to
While public access is
safe, as of now. on cable and
on WBA1 (FM) 99.5 for les¬
bian and gay producers, the
battle to get visibility on
commercial and pubic televi¬
sion is just beginning. Let's
be accurate in our assault.
Larry Gutenburg
The Gay Show
WBAI (FM) 99.5
Gabriel Rotello responds:
You're quite right. The sen¬
tence should have read.
‘ threatened to wipe out gey
shows entirely on Channel J.‘
DAY APPEAL
Since the last sentence
of my article about the three
women who pleaded guilty to
conspiracy charges in a
series of government protest
bombings [no. 66, Oct. 3|
wasn’t printed, could you
please publish this letter?
This letter goes on to say
that anyone who wants to
sign a pre-sentendng petition
in support of Laura White-
hom, Linda Evans and Mari¬
lyn Buck: to learn more about
their resistance conspiracy
case: or to support the cam¬
paign for Alan Berkman’s
parole, can write to: the Emer¬
gency Committee lor Political
Prisoners. PO Box 28191,
Washington, DC 20038: or
call (202) 328-7818.
Susie Day
Manhattan
SWEAR TO GOD, WE
DIDN'T WRITE THIS
OURSELVES
As a recent subscriber
and newly out gay person. I
just wanted to let everyone
know that I am proud of our
magazine. Although I do not
subscribe to all the opinions
expressed In the magazine
completely. OutWaek is still
the first lesbian and gay
newsweeldy to completely rep¬
resent ad at us. as wel as set
the stage for a (toy Mien we al
can be proud and unafraid to
be different. With articles rang¬
ing from the subjects of les¬
bian weightiifters to hating
straights. OutWeek has pro-
fotsxfy influenced our society
to no longer stay in the back¬
ground When I tel a straight
friend I’m gey. I now dso give
him/her a copy of OutWeek
This is what I’m all about’
Keep up the good work.
Before I dose my letter.
I’d like to ask the enlarge¬
ment of the Bar 6uide and
Dancing Out department.
There are a lot of bars and
dubs that are in Central Jer¬
sey that need the support of
our community and are not
Nsted. Let's give the South¬
ern suburbanite the opportu¬
nity to have fun and be
informed too.
Manuel Esteves
Eatontown. HJ
THE POLITICS OF
GLANCING
Jay Blotcher’s article
"Conceiving the Queerhood*
in the Oct 3. 1990. Mmthat-
tan Living Guide is discon¬
certing to those of us among
the so-called intrepid few
who have chosen to “venture
off the beaten path* and
‘seek the neutrality of
straight neighborhoods' by
not living in what he consid¬
ers ‘gay neighborhoods in
New York.* Contrary to Mr.
Blotcher’s reasoning, zip
code does not correspond so
easily with political con¬
sciousness or gay communi¬
ty involvement
Just as there is nothing
‘neutral* about living in a
‘straight neighborhood.*
there is nothing inherently
political about living In the
West or East Village or any of
the other neighborhoods
Blotcher considers gay.
Labeling neighborhoods
*gay* or ‘straight* only
serves to perpetuate the
biased attitudes some of us
are working so hard to eradi¬
cate. Lesbians and gays are
everywhere throughout the
five boroughs, and our
‘community activity [is not)
limited to knowing glances or
waves at the supermarket*
Mr. Blotcher will learn little
about these communities by
staying below 14th Street
For lesbians and gays in
New York, address does not
equal potties. If we let it then
we'll accomplish nothing.
Bdt Shannon
Astoria
Jay Blotcher responds: Until
Astoria's Queer Friends and
Neighbors group holds Its
Inaugural meeting, my argu¬
ment stands. The essay may
seem fiercely geocentric, but
experience bears me out At
various times during the
past seven years I’ve lived in
Midwood. Brooklyn. Sunny -
side. Queens. Hoboken and
Mr. Shannon's own Astoria.
Certainly I had queer neigh¬
bors. but they were apoliti¬
cal—end therefore Invisible.
Last year I settled on the
Lower East Side In a politi¬
cally chargePd environment
that escalated my involve¬
ment with AIDS and gay
groups. The synergy of
queer neighborhoods and
queer nation is indisputable.
Ail letters to die editor
should Indude a name,
address and daytime
phone, although names
may be withheld at the
author's request. Out-
Week reserves the right
to edit Icons for darity
and apaoe ounwlrra t in na.
Apathy May Keep
Gays out of City Council
I_ bh _I
'IN THE END. ITS A POLITICAL PROCESS .'—Ronald Jacobowitz
(left) and Robert Bailey
And in a city liaisons arc charged with reaching out
whose gay com¬
munity has never
been able to dea
one of its own to
the council, the
decisions made by
the Dirftxtng Com¬
mission could im¬
pact, either posi¬
tively or negative¬
ly, on the commu¬
nity’s electoral
power for years to
Created by a
Supreme Court
decision that
found New Yurie’s
by Duncan Osborne
NEW YORK—With'less than a year
to complete its work, the municipal
body charged with redrawing the city's
council districts is moving forward with
little representation from the gay com¬
munity and perhaps even less interest
on the part of lesbian and gay men in
the redistricting process.
The Districting Commission, a 15-
member. independent body appointed
by city government leaders, is now fully
staffed and preparing to begin its first set
of public hearings. But despite the efforts
of a handful of lesbian and gay politicos
to have Mayor David Dinkins appoint an
openly gay or lesbian commissioner and,
later, to place a gay candidate in a senior
staff position, the commission's work is
proceeding with a single gay man in a
lower-lcvd staff Job, and a second work¬
ing as a consultant to the group.
now-defunct Board of Estimate uncon¬
stitutional, the Districting Commission
will increase the number of city council
districts from 35 to 51. The districts must
be drawn to ensure the fair and effective
representation of minority groups pro¬
tected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
which does not include gay men and
lesbians. The commission must present
a prototype district plan for public in¬
spection by Feb. 1. 1991, and must com¬
plete its work before June 3 of next
year
Ronald Jacobowitz, 31, « ooc of six
community liaisons on staff. *We are
making sure that New York knows what
we are doing.' he recently tokl OufVtefc
Although some of the liaisons
were recruited for a particular exper¬
tise (one speaks Mandarin Chinese,
and another knows American Sign
Language, for example), none of the
to any specific community. Neverthe¬
less, jacobowitz, a former volunteer
with gay lobbying groups like FAIR-
PAC and the Human Rights Campaign
Fund, promised, 'I will make it my
business to make sure the gay com¬
munity is informed.’
To that end, Jacobowitz has begun
compiling names of gay and lesbian
groups and individuals to be included in
the commission's mailing list and setting
up meetings between those groups and
various commissioners. Staff members are
scheduled to meet with the first commu¬
nity group, Gay and Lesbian Independent
Democrats, the city’s largest gay political
dub, later this month.
While community input is undoubt¬
edly important, even Jacobowitz recog¬
nizes the nature of drawing district
lines. *In the end. it is a political pro¬
cess,* he admitted. And while commis¬
sioners may be careful to solicit Input
from every community, it may be the
ones with the most political clout that,
in the end, are the roost satisfied with
the city’s new council manic map.
Jacobowitz is constrained from act¬
ing as a gay advocate by the commissioa
He may influence its work only by in¬
forming the community about the com¬
mission's work, in the hopes that it will
increase community participation in the
public hearings and heat up debate on
the issue within gay circles. Com¬
missioners will ostensibly base their dis¬
trict line decisions in part on testimony
presented at those hearings.
Robert Bailey, a political science
professor at Columbia University, is the
mmm.
second openly gay man involved with
the Districting Commission as a con¬
sultant to the commission’s data-base
management team. That team will
maintain the information through
which the commissioners will choose
new district line locations. Census
data, election results, information
derived from mailing lists and other
demographic statistics will all be
included in the data base.
While noting that gays and lesbians
have no electoral protections under the
voting rights act or the city's new char¬
ter, Bailey added, 'The kinds of con¬
cerns and questions a gay activist would
ask are answered in the data base."
Gay and lesbian observers of the
Districting Commission’s work continue
to express disappointment in the level of
the community's overall interest. While
some of the city's ethnic groups, roost
notably Asian Americans and African
Americans, are organizing to submit testi¬
mony and data on their communities to
the commissions, gay and lesbian efforts
are embodied in just a handful of people
Some sources have suggested that
the appeal of direct action has resulted
in flagging attention to the technical as¬
pects of traditional electoral activism.
But recent gay successes at the polls, in¬
cluding the election of Eve Preminger to
the Manhattan Surrogate s Court and les¬
bian candidate Deborah dick's victory
in the Democratic primary for state As¬
sembly from Greenwich Village, may
presage a renewing community willing¬
ness to engage in traditional politicking
The gay community's interaction
with the Districting Commission is com¬
plicated by its demographics. While
there are certainly neighborhoods with
a large gay population, gay men and
lesbians are more likely to live through¬
out the city's many ethnic neighbor¬
hoods than other minority groups,
which are often identifiable as a dear
majority In certain areas. While Bed-
fbcd-Stuyveaant is populated almost en¬
tirely by African Americans, and Man¬
hattan Valley’s Latino majority Is dear,
no one really knows if a majority of the
East Village’s residents are gay and les¬
bian, despite an obvious gay presence
throughout downtown Manhattan.
"The Commission seems to be
ready, willing and able to put in any
data that any community says is rele¬
vant,* she added.
Presumably, an existing gay and les-
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Three More Casualties in a
Volatile Leadership Landscape
NEW YORK—Hiring*, firing* and
resignations are redrawing the map of
community-based AIDS services in
New York City, and some of the moves
may indicate that the AIDS epidemic is
overwhelming AIDS service providers
more than ever before.
These changes come at a time of
tremendous turnover In leadership at
many gay and lesbian organizations. In
the past year, over half of the 17-
member support group for executive
directors of local gay and AIDS groups
have resigned or been fired.
And there is one thing the current
round of shake-ups at the Community
Research Initiative, the AIDS Resource
Center and the AIDS Treatment Reg¬
istry, which have left serious leadership
vacuums at each group, certainly have
•It is indicative of strain. We would
ail agree that AIDS organizations are
under a great amount of stress,* com¬
mented Derek Hodel, who, In just two
years as the executive director of the
People With AIDS Health Group, a
buyer's club for experimental treat¬
ments, has become one of the AIDS
community's longest-lasting chieftains.
*Our leaders are being asked to
perform undoable tasks and are not al¬
ways being supported. In a few cases,
they are incapable or incompetent,*
Hodel continued.
Added Ronald Johnson, the exec¬
utive director of the Minority Task
Force on AIDS for just less than two
years, "When you have administrative
upheaval at that level across the board,
it cant help but have an impact on the
delivery of services."
As budgets shrink and caseloads
swell, AIDS groups must redefine their
tasks. And in the small world of commu¬
nity groups, the criticism from within can
be intense, and the leaders in the fight
against AIDS are ks frequent targets.
•It's a very tough job being an ex¬
ecutive director at an AIDS organiza¬
tion.* said GMHCs deputy executive
director for policy, David HanseU. They
are very tough environments.*
CR1 Ditches Btiarl
In a tersely worded announcement,
the board of the Community Research
Initiative last week asked for the resigna¬
tion of Dr. Bernard Bihari, the medical
and executive director, by the end of this
year Bihari. who has headed CXI for sev¬
eral years, recently drew unprecedented
criticism from ACT UP/NY’S Treatment
and Data Committee, which, in a letter to
its board, reportedly expressed fairly
scathing dissatisfaction with CRTs results
after more than three years of operating
community-based dinical drug trials for
AIDS treatments.
The ACT UP committee interviewed
current and former CRI employees to
create a profle of CRI that delineates to
failings, according to Charlie Pianchino,
a spokesperson for Treatment and Data.
PHASE OUT— CBI's Dr. Bernard Bihari
The analysis of CRI complained of the
undercnroilment of women and people
of color in its dinical trials; allcg«l that
pharmaceutical companies maintain an
inappropriate influence at CRI; and
cited a lack of published data as evi¬
dence of serious scientific and adminis¬
trative failings
Ron English, the president of the
board of CRI, whose organization's
Ex-March off Dimes Exec Heads AmFAR
NEW YORK — After functioning for over a year without a chief executive, the
American Foundation foe AIDS Research hired Robert H. Brown, the giant AIDS phi¬
lanthropy announced last week.
Brown, 48. has 20 years of experience in not-for-profit management and fund¬
raising with the March of Danes.
*1 am energized in a way that I have not been in three or four years,* Brown
told OuiWetk. "The staff her? motivates me *
While conducting a standard review of AmFAR's operation. Brown does not
tee any need to substantial change the group's direction. ‘Our goal continues to be
to return as much money to the community as quiddy as possible,’ he said.
According to press statements, AmFAR has provided $30 mlkm to more than
470 AIDS projects nationwide since 1985. Brown wil oversee a staff of roughly 60
people in office* here and in Los Angeles.
Brown lives with his wife, Mary Recchia, In Terrytown, NY. -0.0.
14
Photo: Ellen B. Neipris
claim to fame la its pioneering work on
aerosolized pentamidine, now a stan¬
dard prophylactic treatment for AIDS-
related pneumonia, declined to com¬
ment on Bihari's firing
Speaking to ACT UPs criticism, En¬
glish said: T cant say how that influenced
board members individually. As a board,
we were not responding to ACT UP's
complaints.’ Bihari will continue after the
end of this year as principal investigator
on several dinical trials that he initiated.
Bihari, other CRI employees and
board members, did not return OutWeetfs
phone calls. Two CRI board members,
Mark Harrington and Risa Denenberg,
both regular columnists for this ma$izine,
are also members of Treatment and Data.
Triantafillakis Gone From ARC
Meanwhile. Dimitri Triantafillakis
resigned last month as executive direc¬
tor of the AIDS Resource Center, which
operates Bailey House and other hous¬
ing programs for homeless people with
AIDS. *1 can say nothing more than
that it was for pressing personal rea¬
sons that I am not at liberty to discuss,*
the former director said. A prepared
statement from acting director Marion
Riedel, reiterated his statement and
praised Triantafillakis for his work dur¬
ing his ten-month tenure at ARC.
His departure on Sept 10 came just
four days before ARC secured a zoning
waver from the city that will allow the
group to convert the building next door
to Bailey House, at Christopher and 'Vest
streets, into a new wing. ARC had been
threatened with losing $600,000 in federal
construction funds had the long-sought
zoning change not come through-
Shortly after Boston native Tri-
aruafillakis 1 departure from his first New
York job, ARC began soliciting bids for
the renovation of the building next
door to Bailey House. The new wing
will add 11 wheelchair-accessible beds
to the former hotel at the corner of
Christopher and West streets that now
houses over 40 people with AIDS.
Long Leaves Top Post at ATR
And Iris Long, a founder of the
AIDS Treatment Registry, which pub¬
lishes a guide to clinical trials for exper¬
imental AIDS drugs, has resigned as
that group's board president, and the
board declined to reelect her. Stephen
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Swamped by Surge in AIDS,
GMHC Forced to Curtail
Caseload
TRYM6 TO BE HOMEST—71m
Sweeney, executive director
by Nina Rayas and Duncan Osborn#
NEW YORK—The AIDS epidemic
has at but overtaken Gay Men's Health
Crisis, forcing the world’s premiere
AIDS service organization to begin lim¬
iting the number of new clients that
will have access to the intricate maze
of programs the group offers, and cap¬
ping the period of immense growth
GMHC has experienced as the agency
tried to keep pace with the AIDS crisis.
The new growth-management
plan, which will be implemented for a
six-month period beginning in Decem¬
ber. after which it will be reviewed for
efficacy, comes at a time when New
York City is entering an economic
slump and a major federal AIDS relief
program received no appropriation
from Congress. Since new AIDS cases
are expected to skyrocket in the next
few years, GMHCs decision to tailor
growth means that other AIDS-service
groups could be faced with a tidal
wave of demand for the client services
that GMHC has provided up until now.
The announcement that GMHC
will limit growth also coincides with
the changing of the organization's top
leadership, and it is rumored that Tim
Sweeney. GMHCs new executive di¬
rector, demanded that GMHCs board
firmly commit to a strategic develop-
i«mifci
-THE DEMAND BN'TGOMG AWAY*
Tommy Thomson, dk. at client services
ti
*A SKOAL COMMTMBfT TO THE GAY
COMMUNITY -—Cerise Cunrungham,
assistant director at communications
ment plan before he agreed to take
over the organization’s helm. But the
speed with which the new strategic
plan followed Sweeney’s appointment
last month has led some to speculate
that the plan had been in the works
much longer, and one source at the
agency informed OurtRwkthat a group
management strategy was under dis¬
cussion during the tenure of Jeff Braff.
the agency's former executive director,
who was recently forced to resign.
While the new guidelines for man¬
aging GMHCs growth, which were re¬
leased to the organization's staff just two
weeks ago, are designed in part to im¬
prove delivery of services to more than
3,000 GMHC clients, the decision to
Photos: T L Un/OrfWto*
adopt a plan for limiting ex¬
pansion is also designed to
ensure that GMHC will not
become yet another casualty
of the AIDS epidemic
Service Delivery:
Number-One Problem
In just five years in New
York state, according to
some projections, the num¬
ber of women alone who
are diagnosed with AIDS wfll
outstrip the number of new
AIDS cases among gay men.
j Intravenous-drug users will
.. constitute nearly half of the
J new AIDS caseload, and the
£ overall number of new cases
wfll continue to
nearly exponential rate. Ex-
pens expect that adequate
public funds will not be appropriated to
cope with this impending onslaught of
new AIDS cases and note that few AIDS-
service organizations comparable in
scope to those in the lesbian and gay
commented Rodger Mc-
Fariane, a former execu¬
tive director of GMHC
who now runs Broad¬
way Cares, a philan¬
thropic organization ded¬
icated to AIDS.
In New York, a
great deal of the burden
for caring for people
with AIDS has fallen on
GMHC, and in the pro¬
cess of coping with a
quickly multiplying
caseload and instituting
new programs to deal
with the projected
needs of future clients,
the efficiency of service
delivery has rapidly de¬
clined. According to an
Internal GMHC state¬
ment, recently convened client focus-
groups, while registering few com¬
plaints about the quality of GMHC'a
services, pointed to delay In receipt of
as the number-one problem.
"TUB IS ALL UNCHARTED TERRJ-
EES ARE ALSO CUBfTt "—Oanise TORY "—Geoftry Knox, director
Dalton, dir. of human resources of public relations
d in pace with
"Even the gay caseload continues to
increase more than any not-for-profk (or¬
ganization) could expect to (deal with],’ services
Taking a Chance on AIDS
NEW YORK—Gauging where GMHC is heading as it pre¬
pares to enter its second decade of service is difficult in part
because the organization is itsalf not immune to AIDS. Staff
members disclose that between 10 percent end 15 percent of the
agency's volunteers are also clients, and whie data are not avafl-
abie on the number of employees who are HfV-posWve, estimates
indicate that in the long haul, AIDS alone will account for a dra¬
matic staff turnover
*A lot of our employees deal wflh AIDS in their private Ives as
wel as in their professional lives,* said Denise Oalton, the agency’s
human resources director. ‘About 10 percent of our employees
iho make some use of our services,' shs added.
Meanwhile, employee and volunteer attr i tion rales reflect on
the one hand, the psychological toll of working on a professional
level with AIDS and, on ttre other, the crucisJ role GMHC plays in
the grooming of young soda! service professionals for entry into
one of the many specialized agencies that deal with various aspects
of the AIDS crisis.
Throughout the course of the organization's existence, staff
and volunteers have been laced with balancing what the organize-
tion can offer with what the community of people with AIDS needs.
and with miking judgments about the type of services that the
agency will depend upon other social service groups to provide.
•It’s not trying to shirk responsibility,* explains Tim Sweeney.
GMHC* new executive director, *lt* trying to bs honest*
Alternatively, as the face of the AIDS epidemic hss clanged,
GMHC has added components that mala it mors attractive to peo¬
ple with AIDS who do not (It the agency* stereotypcal dent, such
as on-site child cars, and guidance through the bureaucratic
labyrinth necessary to procure homing assistance.
In private interviews with GMHC workers, a picture emerges
of a stiff resigned—if unhappily—to the fact that they and their
agency simply cannot do al that they would Bai Mark Aurigemmi,
the aesistant coordretor of intilo in diant services, laid, Tor the
last nins months, we Vs bean working under a caseload that la
beyond our ability. As soon as you'd hang up with one peroon,
thais'd be three more on hold. But k toeia bod to eat a Imlt*
Staffers are also looking Into a triage scheme for people
who are initially turned away from GMHC. *We don't want the
answer to be, "We're tony, we're Ml tor the month, try someone
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The abort-term growth-manage¬
ment plan devised for testing In the fir*
half of next year attempts to shore up
the health of GMHC by limiting Its ser¬
vices to only 100 new clients per
month. Even with that quota, the
caseload of the organization will contin¬
ue to grow, but in the last six months,
an average of 155 new clients per
month joined GMHC, and the new cap
on intakes will allow the organization to
streamline delivery of services.
Other orders to control expansion
fall basically on two other areas of ser¬
vice. The ombudsman's office, which
seeks to quickly resolve clients' urgent
health care problems without legal inter¬
vention, will take no more than 200
complaints each month after the growth-
management program goes into effect,
down from the approximately 250 com¬
plaints that the office fields now. And
the agency's education department,
which operates prevention programs fo¬
cused on gay and bisexual men, "will
undertake no additional population
groups outside the gay community.*
Added former ED McFarlane, The
problem GMHC faces is that we creat¬
ed a gigantic expectation.*
The decision to implement con¬
trols on expansion also introduced a
sketchy long-term strategic plan that
concentrates on coat-efficiency analysis
methods of raising money. And several
of the points laid out in the long-term
plan, such as the possibility that GMHC
could presently attempt to recapture
costs through Medicaid reimburse¬
ments, betray an undercurrent of ner¬
vousness about the future fiscal stability
of die organization.
Drop In Donation* Projected
*We have a really big battle In front
of us coming at the worst time,’ said Tfan
Sweeney, GMHC* director, assessing the
current political and economic donate of
the country against the backdrop of the
mushrooming AIDS epidemic. Sweeney
is confident that his agency will survive
the lean years that economists are pro¬
jecting But while it is certain that GMHC
has the capacity to endure far more fiscal
belt-tightening than smaller, less promi¬
nent AIDS-service agencies, Sweeney's
director of finance and administration,
Michael Bums, has already perceived a
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by NIm Rayas
NEW YORK—Citing financial tur¬
moil, (be sudden resignation of b direc¬
tor and a threatened exodus from the
board, (be Pund for Human Dignity last
week announced that the organisation
is shutting down for good
But sources dose to the top ecb-
r' n of the organization, which has
' n in a state of suspended antaoa-
a since a staff walkout rendered it
ert early this year, pointed to
iironic mismanagement as the pri¬
mary factor in the Fluid's downfall.
"The Fund had been in a collaps¬
ing stage for a long time,* admitted
Ann Wilson, a co-chair of the Fund’s
board, pointing out that just four
years ago, the board bad seriously
discussed dosing the organization.
According to Wilson, when
Robert Brading. the controversial het¬
erosexual director of the organization,
told the board that he'd had it with
the Fund and planned to move on as
of Oct 12, the announcement proved
to be the catalyst for a series of
actions that forced the dosing of the
Fund on Oct. 3- After learning of
Brading's resignation, several key
members of the board's executive
committee declared that they, too,
would ditch the organization, Wilson
said, leaving the Fund In a managerial
crisis that the remaining board felt
was insurmountable.
"This is a great opportunity to point
fingers and I don't want to do that,*
Robert Brading told OulWetk the day
the Fund shut its doors. *1 thought we
had made a lot of progress at the Aind,
and that we were moving in the right
direction. I don't think there was any
antagonism,' added Brading, who is
returing to a job at the National
Conference of Christians and Jews,
where he was the director prior to
his tenure at the Fund
Since early last summer,
when first the Cnnsline volunteers
and then virtually all of the staff
walked out, protesting alleged
r m ^nr jrn vrrf anH
financial chaos, the PVmd has been
plagued with internal problems
and the organization’s primary
program, a national gay and les¬
bian crisis hotline, has been basi¬
cally defunct
A complex web of financial
factors contributed to the sud¬
den demise of the Fund, too.
Aside from debts totaling more
than $20,000 and a reported
judgment against the organiza¬
tion for $8,000 resulting from s
suit against the Fund from a for¬
mer employee, the Internal
Revenue Service attached the
organization's account in mid-
August. alleging that the Fund owed
back taxes.
Wilson said that the IRS has since
acknowledged that the account was
wrongfully seized, but because of the
tax agency's bureaucratic process, the
Fund will not be able to recoup Its
account for sfac» nine months.
Ed Mickens, a former communica¬
tions consultant to the Fund, harshly
ration, sating that, in his opinion, dew¬
ing the doors of the Fund was an
unnecessarily drastic response to the
troubles the organization faced. *1 think
It's really regrettable,* Mickens stated.
Mickens also absolved Brading,
whose appointment last spring caused
the highly publicized uproar (hat didnt
settle down until after the crippling
volunteer and staff walkouts, of all
blame for the careening course the
OUT TAKES
POLICE BIAS
UNIT HIRES
GAY COP
NEW YORK—The New York City
Police Department's Bias Incidents
Investigating Unit has hired its first
openly gay officer. But rather than praise,
the unit Iras drawn criticism from a gay
and lesbian police group for ignoring
community input in making the hire.
‘The issue is, Is the community
being recognized? The issue is com¬
munity participation. Otherwise, every¬
thing the commissioner and the mayor
say is just rhetoric.* says Sam Ciccone,
executive director of the Gay Officers
Action League, the organization that
has been pressing the city to hire an
openly gay officer for the bias unit
since last May. According to Ciccone,
the larger gay and lesbian community
has been seeking such an appointment
for several years Finally responding to
community pressure, the NYPD hired
an openly gay officer for the bias unit,
but rejected Louise Gomez, the candi¬
date recommended by GOAL. Ob¬
servers of the process have suggested
that NYPD went out of their way to
avoid hiring GOAL’S choice.
Inspector Paul Sanderson, com¬
manding officer of the bias unit, which
investigates bias crimes citywide, told
Out Week that Mark Caruso. 27. was the
successful candidate for the investigator
position. Caruso has five years of expe¬
rience on the force as a patrol officer in
both the West Village s 6th Precinct and
the 7th Precinct on the Lower East Side.
Sanderson would not comment on the
choice of Caruso over GOAL’S candi¬
date but stated: ‘The community has
no direct say-so as to who we hire or
[don't hirel. That would be extremely
inappropriate.*
Sanderson said that while the police
department tries to be responsive to any
community on mailers of hiring policy, k
could not do so on Individual hires.
’Once you begin to bend to that, it is
chaos.’ Sanderson said Caruso will serve
a standard 90-day probationary period.
He declined to be interviewed
Man Foreman, executive director
of the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence
Project, expressed exasperation with
the entire process. It’s an unfortunate
situation that could have been easily
avoided if the police de p a r tmen t had a
mechanism for community involve¬
ment,* he said
But another source who does anti¬
violence work expressed disappoint-
ment in how GOAL handled the skuation.
If s pathetic to have this controversy sur¬
rounding what should be a positive
step. They put the department in a bad
place, and the deportment thumbed his
nose,* the source said
Gomez, 33, has five years experi¬
ence on the force and as a patrol officer,
and currently serves at the 23rd Prec i nct
in East Harlem. A GOAL deputy director
and a member for five years, she has
applied to join the bias unk once before.
This time, she received letters of support
from the mayor's Office for the Lesbian
and Gay Community, the Lesbian and
Gay Community Center and the Gay and
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. *lf
Jesse Helms Is
Hazardous to Your l
H ealth &
WASHINGTON—‘Offensive art has
been spotted at various locations in our
nation's Capital,' warns a press release
from the Reactionary Art Police, the latest
offshoot of OUTI, a DC-based gay and
lesbian activist group. These works of art
must be eliminated (so] as not to offend
the sensibilities of US taxpayers ’
To that end, members last month
chose seven of Washington's vilest public
.art works, including the Boy Scout
Memorial pictured here, for quarantine
with yellow‘caution* tape. On the statue
in the Ellipse near 15th Street NW and
Constitution Avenue, notices were posted
that read. *Sea Jesse Helms (R-NC) has i |
determined this art is obscene and haz- *
ankws to the American way of life.’
grata
homoerotic art but thevVe been support- homoerobc ait in DC museums and on the
ing this kind of art alatongand it’s all over ca^’s street, toterin October. Turner
our city," OUT* Tim Turner told OutWeek
—Andrew Hilltr/New York
22
a community is going to be directly
affected by a unit, I think that commu¬
nity should have a say in who gets
appointed,* she told OuSWeek Neither
Gomez nor Ocoone said that they ques¬
tion Caruso's qualifications, objecting
only to the manner in which he was
hired. According to Qocone, Caruso is a
former GOAL member
At present Caruso is the only
openly gay officer serving with the bias
unit, and the unit has no plans to hire
additional openly gay or lesbian offi¬
cers in the future.
—Duncan Osborne amt
Andrew Miller
SOUTER
CONFIRMED IN
SENATE
LANDSLIDE
WASHINGTON—The Senate
voted 90-9 to confirm President
George Bush's nomination of David
Souter to the Supreme Court on Oct. 5,
making the New Hampshire judge the
High Court's 105th.
Only nine Democrats voted
against the nominee, whose reticence
and lack of record on abortion and
small but hostile history on lesbian and
gay issues earned him denunciations
from the community’s most prominent
national organizations
*1 have little faith that this nomina¬
tion will be a good thing for the lesbian
and gay communtiy or for choice issues,*
said Urvashi Vtid, the executive director
of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force. *1 would be delighted to be
proven wrong. But based on his record
as a judge and an attorney general. I
don't befreve I will be."
The nine dissenting senators were
Alan Cranston of California; Daniel
Akaka of Hawaii; Edward Kennedy
and John Kerry of Massachusetts; Bill
Bradley and Prank Lautenberg of New
Jersey; Quentin Burdick of North
Dakota, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland;
and Brock Adams of Washington.
Senator Pete Wilson, a California
Republican, did not vote but previ¬
ously endorsed the nomination.
—Andrew MOer/Sew York
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by Paul Rykoff Coleman
BRISTOL
MYERS MAY
APPLY FOR DDI
APPROVAL BY
YEAR’S END
NEW YORK—AIDS activists say
that a drug currently in dinical trials is
showing results good enough to warrant
an early release, but the drug company
testing it says that it will not apply for
Food and Drug Administration approval
until at least the end of the year.
The activists are from ACT UP/NYs
Treatment and Data Committee. The
drug company is Bristol-Myers Squibb.
The drug is ddl, chemically related to
AZT, the only agent approved by the
FDA for treatment against HIV. A Bristol-
Myers spokesperson said that the com¬
pany will not file a new drug application
with the FDA until the end of the year
or early neat year. Optimism among ac¬
tivists and some researchers for an early
release for ddl follows on the publica¬
tion of a long-term study conducted by
the National Cancer Institute in the SepL
1 Issue of the British medical journal
The Lancet. The Nd researchers noted
improvements in immunologic indica¬
tors ai doses that reduced the severity of
side effects known to occur with the
drug. It's these immunologic indicators,
surrogate markers, that activists say
should be considered far drug approval.
Traditionally, dinical studies have relied
not on improvements in indMdua, sub¬
jects but on end points, such as death.
Bristol-Myers executives and four
members of the Treatment and Data
Committee met on Sept. 26, as they do
periodically, to assess progress of the
ddl trials Jim Eigo, a committee mem¬
ber, later reported at the committee’s
weekly meeting that Bristol-Myers said
that phase I trials testing safety also
showed good dinical efficacy. T4 cells,
an indictor of immunity, either rose or
stayed at their initial levels. Also, the
company executives told the committee
members that no Interactions occurred
between ddl and other drugs.
'That’s a pretty broad claim,' Eigo
told the committee, adding that the com¬
pany seemed to be 'fumbling and bum¬
bling' with the FDA, slowing down the
approval process. The committee mem¬
bers and Bristol-Myers also discussed
the company's changing the buffer
antacid in ddl’s formulation. Current
studies arc now using a dtntc phosphate
buffer, which produces diarrhea, tastes
bad and is loaded with sugar. The com¬
pany spokesperson, Susan Yarin, told
Out Week that the new buffer will have
less sugar and is not expected to cause
diarrhea “Without that buffer,’ she said,
'ddl wouldn't be absorbed and wouldn’t
work.* The new buffer will not be used
in ongoing trials and should not delay
FDA approval, Eigo said.
ddl is the first drug to be tested un¬
der an experimental program known as
parallel track. Under this system, people
with AIDS who cannot tolerate, or have
developed resistance to. AZT and do not
meet entrance criteria into a study may
get the drug through their doctor. Many
researchers are opposed to parallel track,
arguing that the system discourages en¬
rollment in dinical trials. But supporters
say that many people with AIDS do not
qualify because of the study's rigid re¬
quirements, and parallel track allows
them to get the drug. Currently, three
major trials, pan of the National Institutes
of Health AIDS Clinical Trails Group, are
underway. In the lancet study, 58 people
with AIDS or AIDS-Related Complex
were given doses that either started low
and were increased or high and de¬
creased. The researchers fixed on 9 6 mil¬
ligrams per kilogram of body weight as
one that showed efficacy with minimal
side effects. Higher doses produced ncu-
ln the Pipeline...
The manufacturer of loses met an intravenously administered drug that delays
progression of cytomegalovirus infection of the retina, filed a new drug application
with the US Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 21. The drug can be released
once the FDA approves the application. CMV occur* in 20 percent of people with
AIDS. If left untreated, it can cause blindness. Currently, the only approved drug for
CMV is ganciclovir, which cannot be taken with AZT because of simkar side effects
on white blood cells. Astra Pharmaceutical Products Inc. plans to market the agent
under the trade name. Foscavir. Its sponsors are calling it “the largest study of its
kind ever conducted"—mors than 30 community-based dinics nationwide will pro¬
vide ongoing information on more thin 1,000 patients with HIV, induding disease
progression and treatments, to an observation data base. The National Institutes of
Health and the American Foundation for AIDS Research want to get data from a
wide cross-section of those with HfV infection. Over 1,000 people with HIV infection
are expected to participate in cooperation with their physicians.
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ropathy, pancreatitis and hepatitis B.
Data from 13 people with AIDS who
stayed with the study longest—up to 20
months—showed increases in T4 cells.
The researchers noted that these increas¬
es were statistically significant for at least
nine months.
Improvements in cognitive dys¬
function were noted in those with de¬
mentia. Eighty percent of people with
AIDS and 93 percent of those with ARC
were surviving after 21 months. The
Lancet authors stress that their data and
study design allow no conclusions about
whether ddl actually reduces disease
progression and how it stands in com¬
parison with ACT.
Activists want drug companies and
the FDA to seriously consider surrogate
markers—T4 activity, p24 antigen activi¬
ty to determine whrther the virus is ac¬
tive and overall clinical benefit—when
considering approving a drug before all
data are in. But data submission is the
burden of the drug company.
OPPOSES AIDS PROVISIONS —Dr Louis
W. Sullivan
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a House bill that would strengthen
both AIDS research and funding at the
National Institutes of Health.
In a six-page Sept. 25 letter ad¬
dressed to the chair of the Committee on
Energy and Commerce, Congressman
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posed, among other items, provisions for
feta] re s e ar ch, increasing participation of
women and people of color in clinical
trials, chronic fatigue syndrome research,
and hiring senior researchers at salaries
competitive with the private sector. All
are directly related to AIDS research.
The letter represents Dr. Sullivan's
position and (he position of the adminis¬
tration,' said an HHS source who re¬
quested anonymity. There are efforts to
get Republicans to actively oppose the
bill.' He added that this legislation was
among “hundreds of issues and hundreds
of bills the department has an interest
in.' The bill, HR 566-Natkxial Institutes
of Health Revitalization Amendments of
1990, was reported out of committee on
Sept 26 but was bounced back last week
because, with a majority—but not two-
thirds—of committee members voting in
favor of it, the bill would be vulnerable
floor, according to ACT UP/NY's John
Ende and Steve Brown, who are follow¬
ing the bill's progress.
In his letter, Sullivan takes issue
with a provision that would undermine
his authority to regulate fetal tissue trans¬
plantation research by setting up an in¬
dependent review board, which, Sullivan
wrote, “would be an intrusion on the ex¬
ecutive branch.’ He added, 'It is our
judgment that the pursuit of fetal tissue
transplantation research has the potential
of providing an inducement to proceed
with an abortion for those women con¬
sidering terminating a pregnancy.’
Because fetal tissue can be planted
in a person's thymus without rejection, it
has important implications In AIDS re¬
search . T cells, an essential part of the
body’s immune system, are made in the
thymus. There's a real implication here
that abortion's illegal,* criticized Ende.
TTs not' Sullivan also objected to includ¬
ing more women and people of color in
dinical trials, an issue of concern to ac¬
tivists. 'Such an inflexible requirement
could in fact jeopardize the initiation of
NIH dinical trials,’ he wrote, 'induding
the very trials that would provide valuable
data relevant to women's health.*
He opposed a provision for chronic
fatigue syndrome research, saying that
the NIH is already studying it. (Some in
the gay community believe chronic fa¬
tigue syndrome is related to HEY infec¬
tion.) He opposed expanding the au¬
thority of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Disease’s AIDS Research
Advisory Comm In ee, which, he wrote,
•would be inappropriate for an Insdtute-
levei committee to provide advise Isle}
on research priorities to other compo¬
nents of the NIH.' Finally, he opposed a
provision that would establish research
positions at salaries no less than those
paid in the private sector, daiming that
the Federal government is working on a
revised personnel system. ▼
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mission, could put Its own candidate,
straight or gay, in office. Pie! also said
that she hopes to move the community
to 'make noise" and attend the commis¬
sion's hearings. “A motivated minority
can make a difference,* she said.
Meanwhile, Ken Sherrill, who, In
1977, became the city's first openly gay
elected official when he won an Upper
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ,
The Roads Not Taken
by Mark Harrington
Senior people prcssion and its publication by the
in infectious dis- CDC, it rapidly became apparent that
ease, generally out ■ the new disease of the immune syv
of personal fear tn U tem was linked to a disorder of T-cell
1981-82, did not P subsets. T cells had only recently
do anything tn the l . A been differentiated, and there were
/AIDS!field And new assays which could distinguish
that s the failure between T4 and T8 cells. In 1981.
of the American Joseph Sonnabcnd called Stuart
medical system. Schlossman, the Harvard Immunolo-
AB of those people generally left the field gist who did the original work with
alone—generally out of medical fear. monoclonal anybodies, which en-
Tbey bad experience with tuberculosis or abled us to distinguish between T4
syphilis—chronic long-term diseases. A kit cells, T8 cells and so on.
of what we know about mutttdrug treat- *1 suppose you’ve been deluged
merits is derived from TB—but these with phone calls about people wanting
infectious disease people today don't bate to work on this new disease, which
any relationship to TB—sanatoria, endU- involves T-cell subsets," said Sonnabend.
pie studies, overlapping tcadcittes. "No, you're the first on who's called,"
—An ACTC Researcher
I t's easy to forget how new this all
b. Modem medicine is less than 200
years old. The germ theory of disease
is about 100 years old. The first "magic
bullet" cure for an infectious disease
was discovered only 75 years ago. The
first antibiotics were discovered 60
years ago. The very few effective
antiviral drugs that exist have been
around for less than 20 years.
The first comparative clinical trials
were done In the '40». Randomization
was initially performed (on plants) in
the '20s. Use of placebos began in the
'30s Combination therapy for tuberculo¬
sa was first tested in the early '50s.
Medical progress does not come
by following the rules, it comes from
changing the rules. This b rarely rec¬
ognized by today s AIDS elite. They
have not learned from medical history.
Many have not even learned from the
mistakes made over the last decade.
A poverty of imagination b eating
away at the integrity of American sci¬
ence. In 1981, with the identification
of the new disease of immunosup-
The AIDS elite has
ignored scores of
potential pathways.
replied Schlossman.
This dismaying tale reveals some¬
thing pervasive from the very start of
the epidemic—the failure of those with
public health responsibilities to recruit
the nation's top immunologists into
research on AIDS. Even the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis¬
eases, with program responsibility for
both immunity and AIDS, has been vir¬
tually colonized in its AIDS research by
oncologists from the National Cancer
Institute and by the virologists who
pioneered antiviral trials for Burroughs
Wellcome with .Acyclovir (Zovirax) and
AZT (Retrovir)
The result b that we know db-
mayingly little about how HIV works
In the body (although we have mas¬
sive data about how it behaves in cer¬
tain laboratory cell lines).
Ten years later, we’re still in the
dark. Scores of potential pathways
have been ignored. While reputable
mainstream scientists publish crushing-
ly obvious conclusions ("as you get
sicker, more virus can be isolated from
your T cells"), we still haven’t got
much of an idea about exactly how
HIV is linked to the overwhelming
immunosuppression found in its wake.
Does the immune reaction to
HIV cause disease? The inflammatory
response of the immune system
(fevers, swelling, etc.) b a primitive,
evolutionarily ancient mechanism
which sometimes does more harm
than good. Some of the chemicals
released during the immune inflam¬
matory response activate HIV in the
test tube (IL-2, GM-CSF, tumor necro¬
sis factor), while others may be
linked to both HIV activation and
Kaposi's sarcoma growth (1L-6 and
others). Yet there have been virtually
no studies designed to correct abnor¬
mal levels of these cytokines—
indeed, they are more often tested as
therapies (TNF or interferon) in spite
of evidence that their levels are
already abnormally high.
What about B cells and autoim¬
mune reactions? Another observation
virtually ignored by orthodox re¬
searchers b the proliferation of B cells
(which produce antibodies) and anti¬
bodies in people with AIDS. Some of
these antibodies attack the person's own
tissue, causing thrombocytopenia
(platelet deficiency), cardiomyopathy
(heart disease), and attacking T cells
themselves Virtually no therapies have
been studied to determine whether
autoimmune reactions in AIDS can be
treated. Is B cell activation linked to
Epstein-Barr virus (which lives in B
ceils), and b the presence of EBV linked
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to the increasingly common lym¬
phomas? Does Interleukin-6 produced
by Infected cells contribute to autoim¬
munity or lymphoma? There are as yet
no treatments against IL-6 or EBV.
Why is the immune defect in AIDS
so narrow, and yet so profound?
Among the most striking features of
AIDS is bow few opportunistic organ¬
isms cause disease (just 30 or so of the
hundreds of organisms which can
cause disease in humans), and yet how
those organisms must be treated for
life once they do. Do those organisms
have something in common? They
may. Many of them have thick, greasy
membranes (TB. MAI, toxoplasma,
cryptococcus) which evade detection
by defective or depleted T4 ceils Others
are berpes viruses wbicb live inside
ceils , and themselves produce destruc¬
tive cytokines (HSV, CMV, EBV). Much
rapid progress could be made by treat¬
ing these organisms as classes and per¬
haps searching for cytokines which
could improve immune recognition.
As the remark at the start of the col¬
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to some extent, stffl) failed to attract the
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depleted T4 cells, and yet remain
healthy? Many people are walking
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complications. Their immune system are
obviously compensating somehow for
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the Sixth International San Francisco
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research alike. It is well past Ume to dis¬
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What’s the Point?
by Ayofemi Folayan
A few months
ago In anoth¬
er publication. I
criticized a Black
gay male poet
from New York
for the misogynist
content of one of
his works, after
having heard him
read the poem at the National Black
Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference
held in Atlanta He wrote to me. in
response, expressing his disappointment
that I did not choose to dialogue direct¬
ly with him. His letter reads, in part
"There is no point in my making
any effort to grapple with sexism as it
affects women if there is no reward for
me; if my pro-feminist efforts cannot
improve my relationship and my com¬
munication with you: Why even bother?
I'm In this so I can be mote honest with
you here and now. not so I can adhere
to some static higher moral imperative."
Because this particular individual
prides himself in being pro-feminist,
this response was tarring to me, as if
someone had splashed a bucket of cold
water over my head. It had simply
never occurred to me that anyone with
any developed political consciousness
would question the appropriateness of
behaving in a nonoppresuve way with¬
out the promise of some immediate
reward. For me, the question is analo¬
gous to asking, "If I go into a store that
has no security system, why shouldn't I
shoplift?" Eliminating oppressive behav¬
ior is not simply an exercise done for
the benefit of others who arc
oppressed. The "higher moral impera¬
tive" should also be seen as a reward,
in the sense that it creates the possibili¬
ty for a more inclusive community
I often get into trouble by assum¬
ing that gay men and lesbians, precisely
because of the beterosexet and homo¬
phobic oppression we all experience.
have a greater willingness to work
against all forms of oppression than
heterosexuals. Yet the persistent racism,
sexism and ableism I experience in our
community as a Black lesbian with dis¬
abilities dearly challenges this notion.
Indeed, there is an almost intransi¬
gent resistance to acknowledging per¬
sonal responsibility when someone
expresses criticism of oppressive
behavior. For example, a hind-raising
Although I was
insulated from racism
for a few days, the
conference of Black
gay men and lesbians
in Atlanta was replete
with incidents that
were sexist, classist
and ableist.
dance for the National Lesbian Confer¬
ence was scheduled at a church audi¬
torium in Atlanta, which is inaccessible
to some who are physically chal¬
lenged When the organizers were
informed that it was not possible for
women in wheelchairs to attend the
dance, their response could be para¬
phrased as 'Why pick on us? We’re try¬
ing to raise money for a good cause!"
Similarly, many gay men working
actively for improved health care for
PWAs seem resentful of my insistence
on the inclusion of women's health
issues, such as breast cancer and
lupus, in their agenda.
Partly, my demand for indusiviry
is personally motivated. As someone
experiencing multiple oppressions. I
cannot simply retreat to the safety of
"my community.* If I seek sanctuary in
the gay and lesbian community, I
encounter racism and ableism; if I turn
to the Black community, I experience
homophobia and ableism. I have not
even attempted to Interface with the
disability activists' community, except
where they arc already port of one of
the other communities of which I am a
member. However, there is a more
Important imperative that guides my
insistence upon ending all forms of
oppression than simply a personal or a
"moral" one.
The reality is that if we don’t
struggle to end all oppressions, we
cannot truly eliminate any oppressions.
As long as AIDS activists remain
focused on getting better care for
PWAs alone, they will be fighting oth¬
ers—women who have breast cancer
and persons who are chronically
underemployed (and therefore have
no health insurance)—for the leftover
crumbs from an inadequate health care
system. A coalition effort re p r es e n ting
all of these interests leads to a greater
chance of making the system more
accountable for the needs of everyone.
Traditionally, coalition politics has
meant sacrificing some port of your iden¬
tity far the achievement of a commonly
desired goal. With a commitment to true
indusiviry. women working in coalitions
shouldn't have to fear sexism, Blades
shouldn't be dodging racism, Jews
shouldn't be anocipatmg the next arui-
semibc remark. Although it is true I was
insulated from racism for a few days, the
30 OVTWIII
OBITUARIES
Werner P. Kuhn
Werner Kuhn died Sunday. Sept 23.
1990. at UCLA Medical Center Hospital m
Los Angeles of complications arising from
AIDS. His companion, Charles Hankins,
reported that he has been hospitalized
since before Labor Day.
Mr. Kuhn, a lawyer, lived in Albany,
NY. from 1973 to 1985, where he was
active in many civic affairs. He was the
founder and first president of the Hudson
Mohawk Business and Professional
Association and later president of the
National Gay and Lesbian Business
Council. Mr. Kuhn was a founder and
board member of the Eleanor Roosevelt
Democratic Club in Albany. He also helped
found, and served on, the board of the
Capital District Lesbian and Gay
Community Center.
Werner Kuhn chaired the board of the
Albany County Mental Health Association
from 1974 to 1976. He was also counci to
the New York Council on Alcoholism in the
70s. His many activities included serving
on the board at the Puerto Rican Dance and
Theater Company in New York City and the
Hudson Park Association in Albany.
Professionally. Mr. Kuhn was on the
staff of the New York City Charter
Commission in the early 70s. He was an
assistant council-in the NY State
Department of Environmental Conservation
and a staff attorney of the Legal Aid
Society in Albany.
In 1985. Werner Kuhn moved to
Southern California where he was
director of the Orange County Lesbian
and Gay Community Services Center.
This center was also funded by the state
of California to deliver human and social
services to persons with AIDS. He was a
founding member and treasurer of the
California Association of AIDS Agencies
and was a member of the Orange County
HIV Advisory Council.
In his early years. Mr. Kuhn was
active in the Ripon Society, becoming the
national vice chair in the late '60s.
Werner Paul Kuhn was bom on May
6.1943. in Rye. NY. the son of Ottifee and
Hans Kuhn. He graduated from Dartmouth
College and remained active in its alumni
association. Mr. Kuhn earned his law
degree from Columbia Law School. He
also took postgraduate studies in business
at Columbia. In the earty ’70s. he was a
participant in the Conference on
International Law of the Sea held in
Malta. It was sponsored by the Institute
for the Study of Democratic Institutions
in Santa Barbara.
Werner Kuhn was an avid devotee of
opera and was attending the Santa Fe
Opera Festival in August of this year when
the first sign of physical iHness occurred.
—Ernest 0. Reaugh
Kenneth R. Barclay
My very dear friend. Kenny Barclay,
age 28. died of complications due to
AIDS near his family home in Stockton.
Calif., on Thursday. Sept. 20.1990.
Kenny was the first person I
became friends with when I moved to
New York City in 1984 and has been my
best friend ever since.
Kenny was the most impassioned
person I've every met; he was both a
dreamer and a doer. He ran off to London
for a year and worked as a gardener,
having tired of New York City restaurant
jobs. He threw great parties in his
backyard in Hoboken, where we all
danced to the Smiths, and where
everyone always stayed over. I think of
him as someone both completely sane
and truly modern. His light was like a
laser, capable of healing. When I phoned
him to say hello, he invariably answered:
"Honey! Get a load of this!" and suddenly
it would be three hours later, and my ear
would ache, and my stomach—from
laughing and talking too fast.
Kenny worked as an AIDS activist in
the San Francisco Bay Area, spray-painting
graffiti against PWA discrimination,
running a thrift shop to benefit PWAs,
volunteering at the local AIDS foundation
and. this past June, serving as a delegate
to the Sixth International AIDS Conference
in San Francisco.
"Love, light and joy." he always said
when parting. I never heard him say
goodbye, so I won’t say it now.
Love, light and joy, Kenny. I sure do
miss youI Memorial donations may be
made in Kenny’s name to the San
Joaquin AIDS Foundation. 4410 No.
Pershing Ave., Stockton, CA 95207.
—MarkS. Cosgrove
James E. Chagares
A fighter made peace on Sept 19.
1990, at age 33. Jim died of compli¬
cations resulting from several AIDS-
related infections.
Demo was bom on JtAy 20.1967. He
graduated from New Rochelle High School.
Pace University and New York State
University at New Paltz. His business career
was with JC Penny Co. and Brooks
Brothers, where he was an assistant buyer.
He is survived by his mother. Jean, his
brother. Spin*. and his ife-mats, Brian.
Demo was an extraordinary person
with an enormous zest for Me. He had a love
affair vwth birds and animals, and they re¬
turned hie affection. He also had a terrific
green thumb. His
apartment—"his
pride"—was me-
do-filed, housing
a jungle of green¬
ery. cages of
birds and tanks of
tropical fish. He
cruised all the
boroughs on hit
bike, noting the
_ new architecture.
He knew every
unusual tree in Central Park.
Demo’s friends were his wealth.
During his long hospital stay, he was
seldom alone—holding court with the
dry wit that never left him. While Brian
was his first love. Demo, indeed, had
many who returned his love.
Following his wishes. Jim was
cremated and his ashes scattered off Fire
Island. His hope was that while walking
the beach, his friends would rejoice in
his freedom and catch his spirit
Contributions in his name may be
made to: AIDS Treatment Registry. PO
Box 30234, New York. NY 10011.
A celebration of Iks Me will be held on
Sunday, Oct 21. at 3 pm. at the home of
Stephen Machoh. 178 bane St, in Manhat¬
tan. Calls can be made to (212) 779-7327.
Our love is forever. Demo.
-Blair McFadden
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The horrific queer-bashing epidemic
continues to spin out of control, but
the mayor and the media have
hardly taken notice. With an anti-gay
hate crime occurring in New York
City almost every day^ talk among
lesbians and gay men has now
turned to taking up guns.
n July 2, a gay man was horn- the daw end of a hammer,
bly murdered In Jackson BY NINA REYES Throughout the summer, a number of
Heights. Queens. No arrests gay men were killed on the Christopher
haVe been made in connection with the Street pier. A transvestite was shot dead in the Bronx. Two
grotesque execution, which was accomplished lesbians embracing on a comer off Sixth Avenue were sur-
ihrough the infliction of multiple sub wounds rounded by a gang of 12 teenage boys and girls who kicked
and repeated blows to the man’s head with them to the ground while spectators silently watched the
brutal beating.
And six gay men walking home from a dub on the
night of Sept. 15 were set upon by a gang of more than a
dozen young thugs yelling anti-gay epithets. One youth
then pulled out a gun, put it to one of the gay men's
heads and threatened. “Next time. I'll blow you away"
The sole basher taken into custody following the assault
was released after a 6th Precinct cop allegedly told the gay
man that if he persisted in pressing charges against his
attacker, counter-charges would be filed against him.
In the heart of queer Manhattan, the West Village,
dozens and dozens of vicious anti-gay assaults have been
logged, including several that were carried out with gay-
bashers’ weapon of choice, the baseball bat. In the East
Village, on the other hand, homo-haters have favored
razors, and a number of gay men have received countless
stitches to dose slashes Inflicted by the scum who hate us.
These crimes, taken with the dozens of brutal attacks
reported this past summer in OutWeeh —and the hundreds
more that were never reported at all—only begin to define
the reign of terror under which lesbians and gay men now
live in New York City. There are anti-lesbian rapes, innu¬
merable verbal assaults, instances of arson, threatening let¬
ters and phone calls and bullies accused of heinous anti¬
gay attacks who are released without bail from an
overcrowded judicial system back onto the streets. •
But perhaps the most terrifying part of the exponen¬
tially rising rate of anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence is that
it continues without registering on the consciousness of
most of the public. Apart from the institutions within our
community that have been built up to cope with the steady
stream of bias incidents, no one seems to care. From the
police to City Hall to the mainstream media, bi these times
of murder, intimidation and mutilation, we have heard
only resounding silence.
I n this vacuum of response, gay men and lesbians
have been left to fend for ourselves, and talk of com¬
munity self-arming—quite separate from community
self-defense—has once again burbled up in discus¬
sions about what we can do to protea oursdves. It
began with talk of bashing back, grew to community
patrols and when even that clearly did not deter the
attacks, escalated to debates about the comparative advan¬
tages of gening guns
To some people, self-arming seems like the only
remaining option. "1 don't necessarily condone or approve
of violence, but at this point I don't know what else I can
do," remarks Larry Kramer, writer, playwright and father of
the AIDS aaivLst movement. "I keep wishing that some
group of men and women more courageous than I would
start a terrorist group."
Another activist, Robert Hilferty, who just two weeks
ago saw a friend struck in the head by a queer-basher armed
with brass knuckles, agrees with Kramer's sentiment and
takes it one step further Hilferty. with several acquaintances,
is exploring the possibility of taking up target practice.
•| have a dream that one day I will be a menace to
homophobic society," Hilferty explains. "I want to be an
anti-anti-gay terrorist."
Man Foreman, director of the New York City Gay and
Lesbian Anb-Violence Project although an ardent opponent of
self-arming, cautions that the
remarkable restraint shown by
the community thus far
last. *No other community
would have endured this vio¬
lence without responding in
kind,’ he explains. Further¬
more, acknowledging the
appeal that striking back with
the dramatic decision to arm
the community bolds, particu¬
larly the sort of ’don't-fuck-
with-us’ message that many
lesbians and gay men want to
publicly broadcast, Foreman
comments, ’Tempers and
patience are now worn to the
breaking point.’
"I think if violence against
lesbians and gays continues to
escalate, that's going to have to
be one of our choices,’ warns
Pink Panther Gerri Wells, even
though she too does not per¬
sonally advocate self-arming.
Several other people con¬
tacted for comment disclosed
that they occasionally carry
concealed weapons when they
expect that they will be in a
threatening situation, but only
one Individual confessed to
having pulled out his weapon
as a deterrent to violence.
However, respondents uni¬
formly agreed that the tempta¬
tion to publicly take up arms.
In the hope that their action
would intimidate potential
gay-bashers, is overwhelming.
But if the strap-on-a-six-
shootcr mentality is emblem¬
atic of profound desperation
among lesbians and gay men,
a majority of the community
still seems committed to
resolving the problem without
resorting to in-kind retaliation.
' This is not the solution
to a very serious social
problem,* observes Sam
Ciccone, director of Gay Officers Action League, a group
of openly gay and lesbian cops, pointing out that when
individuals act solely for their self-protection, the larger
issue of where bias-related hate comes from be¬
comes easy to Ignore, thus defeating any real efforts to
combat homophobia.
In contrast to queers interviewed who want to self-arm
for an increased sense of safety, Vanessa Ferro, the lesbian
and gay liaison for the police department, reported that
carrying a gun at all times,
which she is required to do as
a police officer, gives her no
added security. ’I always feel
like I am at risk,’ Ferro
admitts. *1 don’t feel above
any other civilian in this city.’
Other lesbians and gay
men who have packed a pistol
in the past note that weapons
often end up being turned
against their owners, ultimately
making gun-possession poten¬
tially more dangerous than
walking softly without that
big stick.
*1 would understand it
and recommend it for some¬
one who is truly trained,* says
Rodger McFariane, director of
Broadway Cares and an
expert in small firearms. But,
he adds, ’It's important to
point out that for people who
are trained in hand-to-hand
[combat] and small arms, most
of their training is in avoiding
conflict and resolving conflict
and using deadly force only in
the last resort.*
Still another argument
against the impulse to self-arm
b based in the utterly reason¬
able fear that if even a few gay
men and lesbians pubiidy vow
to harness on a holster. It will
give the cops the excuse
they've been waiting for to train
their own cross-hairs on us.
Since the object of getting guns
b to keep the community from
harm, rational analysis in that
tenor is far more persuasive
than peacenik anti-NRA jargon.
Predictably, many author¬
ities who caution us against
taking our defense Into our
own hands are the same people
who are doing lisle or nothing
to come to our aid. While they
support the Pink Panthers—
perhaps because the presence of a community patrol takes
the heat off the cops—the police department, fully cognizant
of the fact that their armory does not even begin to compare
to the heavy artillery already on the streets, can’t stand the
idea of armed and angry queers. The mayor, for hb part,
praises vigilance and condemns vigilantism
But who b taking responsibility for the fact that we are
anybody’s target when we walk the streets as openly gay
and lesbian people?
“I keep wishing
that some
group of [gay]
men and women
would start a
terrorist group.”
—Larry Kramer
W e queers are mere Iflcdy than any other das of
people to be subjected to violent crimes because
of who we are, according to statistics from the
bias unit of the New York Gty Police Department.
Prom Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, counting 71 hate-
motivated crimes against lesbians and gay men,
the bias unit logged a 107 percent Increase In anti-gay crimes
same period in 1969- That number marics a higher rate of bias-
related assault, verbal harassment and robbery against gay
men and lesbians than against any other demographic group
It also makes queer-hashing the fastest-growing category of
crime in the city. In addition, as bias-motivated incidents
involving lesbians and gay men have dramatically increased,
(he number of crimes motivated by prejudice against African
Americans and Asian Americans has substantially declined,
and the number of prejudice-motivated crimes against Lati¬
nos has essentially remained the same.
What the bias unit does not disclose in its statistics, how¬
ever, is that the police department itself materially contributes
to the problem. Whether it b their refusal to write out a com¬
plaint of gay-re bird harassment or assault because the paper¬
work involved Is a hassle, or their persistent use of anti-gay
and anti-lesbian slurs in their dealings with us, the cops' disre¬
gard for victims of bias-motivated crimes b markedly disturb¬
ing. Stark illustration of the reluctance within the police
department to deal seriously with anti-gay crime is offered by
the fact that during the period that the police department's
bias unit recorded 71 cases of hate-motivated anti-gay crimes,
the New York CJry Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project doc¬
umented a whopping 403 cases.
Even promising steps, such as last week's announcement
that the police departmen t has added an openly gay police
officer to the bias unit, reportedly on a temporary basis, come
shrouded in offense. GOAL presented the police department
with a highly qualified candidate for appointment to the bias
unit as an openly lesbian officer, but in selecting an officer for
the position, the department pointedly ignored GOAL'S recom¬
mendation. "It's simply another way in which they do not take
lesbian and gay people seriously,* GOAL director Oocone bit¬
terly remarks.
The bias unit’s statistics also do not reveal that unlike the
other demographic cate g orie s on which bias-related numbers
are kept, hate-motivated charge s which generally cany a
stiffer penalty—ore not available to gay and lesbian crime vic¬
tims. No statutory violation b committed in singling someone
out for attack based on hb or her perceived or actual sexual
orientation. That b. while the bias unit will provide additional
resources to a precinct's investigation into a hate-motivated
crime against a lesbian or a gay man, bus-related premedita¬
tion does not figure into sentencing when a case is successful¬
ly prosecuted in court
And yet, though there b a crucial legal difference between
anti-gay crimes and other hate-inspired offenses, the police
department doesn't apply a different standard in making a bias
designation. Since the cops locate the primary indicator of
bias-related motivation in the use of anti-gay epithets, to meet
the bias standard, an anti-gay crime must explicitly begin as an
anti-gay confrontation To date, according to anti-violence
activists, only one case has been turned over to the bias unit
for investigation that did not involve anti-gay language
Activists anticipate that the new guidelines for classifica¬
tion of bias-related cases, which are being written to comply
with (be federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act signed into law ear¬
lier thb year, wtl broaden the definition of what constitutes a
hate-motivated crime. But until the hate-crimes bill in Albany
la enactrd, back-of-the-bus justice will remain the standard for
lesbians and gay men.
P erhaps even more so than the police department,
Cky Hall b responsible for the unchecked wave of
anti-gay violence sweeping through the community.
New York City Mayor David Dinkins, who talks
tough about hb hatred of crimes motivated by prej¬
udice, has acted in response to gay-related bias
crimes without any of the passion of that rhetoric.
Dinkins' failure to spearhead the campaign to pass the
state hate crimes legislation, which was defeated in mid sum¬
mer (traditionally the peak period for anti-gay crimes), severe¬
ly disappointed many of hb remaining supporters in the gay
and lesbian community. One OuHWw* source alleged that the
mayor not only failed to personally lobby key Senate Republi¬
cans on behalf of the measure—reportedly because he feared
alienating them before the city's budget had passed—but
never even bothered to press Senate Republicans who had
already publicly agreed to drop their opposition.
AVP's Man Foreman points out that Dinkins has also
neglected to implement the board of education's multicultural
education policy, which indudes sexual orientation. Consider¬
ing that gay-bashers tend to be teenagers, if the cycle of hate
passing from generation to generation—and fueling gay-bosh¬
ing along the way—could be interrupted by displacement of
anti-gay role models In the schools, the cky conceivably could
have a less burdensome bias-related violence problem only a
few years in the future. In the same vein, Dinkins ooukl easily
re-establish the multicultural education position in the mayoral
office of educational services. Since taking office nine months
ago, the position has not existed, either in the gay and lesbian
office, where k used to be, or in educational services.
All in all, Foreman concludes, skyrocketing crimes based
on prejudice were met with ‘Inattention* and j "lethargic*
response from Cky Hall. For a mayor who made his career
through coalition politics, Dinkins has done shockingly little to
address the needs of the lesbian and gay community.
Pan of the equation that has allowed Dinkins to get away
with so much chicanery is the fact that the mainstream media
simply don't care about queen. Occasionally, an exceptionally
brutal attack will make it into the dailies, but the numbing regu¬
larity of anti-gay and anti-lesbian assaults is not reflected any¬
where in the sensational istic accounts of the state of crime in
the cky, leaving non-gay citizens with a sense that the siege
mentality of lesbians and gay men is merely manufactured para¬
noia. Dinkins himself, by doing little more than alluding to anti-
queer violence when he is reciting a laundry tar of bias-reined
crimes, has substantially assisted in perpetuating the conspiracy
of silence that surrounds anti-gay and anti-lesbian crime.
If the stunning rise in rates of queer-bashing received
nearly as much attention as, say, that Utah tourist-boy’s death,
and if (he mayor's commitment to wiping out bias-related vio¬
lence were as urgent, and immediately quantifiable, as, say, his
37
Should Queers Shoot Back?
by dire* anonymous quaere
As lesbians and gay ran. dykes and
fags, bulldaggers and queans—as
quaere—we are not stee anywhere In tois
world. We have nothing—not one square
foot—that cannot be taken away by the
lagged edge of a broken bottle. Our most
cherished pleasures are stolen from us. As a
dyke, l am not tetowed to touch who I want,
desire when I want, fuck without feeing fear
The damage done by Ws state of feat rage
and sorrow Is constant and IrrerereUa. We
ere never ouretevee—nwer.
And we (mow so many fhends. people
we care about and kwe deeply, who have
been toreatoned, chased, maimed, beaten to
wtthln an Inch of Mr Ms because toey are
queer. The tact is that sooner or later, each
one of us gets bashed—walking down a
late-night street alone, or at some other
place, some other time. I hate my tear of
being ambushed by teenage boys who get
off on bashing queers, and I hate my
response to that fear There are moments
when I hide my kfendty as a gay man—
wafle taster; arms swinging, look tough to a
'rear men—wt* Inside I feel the shame,
humfltation and ssIMosttilng of a traitor. I
am, at one and toe same tme. toe scared,
little faggot they take me tor and my own
betrayer because I am too scared to defend
what I know to be true, which Is that their
hatred for us Is toeiri and has nothing to do
wtto toe reafly of our deelre, our bodtoe, ocr
tribe. I know this troth with wary breath I
Wee. but this knowtedga la no protection
art wfl never change toe tact of toere being
We heve no Idea of wto we might be
If we were free of toe threat of phytecal vio¬
lence, let alone If our love for each other
were supported In toe vrodd. In toe mttt of
al this hatred, violence, killing and the
naofect of our oommuntty, we have always
refused to use to roe ourselves. We have
baen above It In our driy befllewllh homo¬
phobia, we seem to have onty two choioes:
One k to svwlow al toe insults, stay In toe
closet, avoid our desire and let our tree
sake* shrtoi slowly away irfl very Me Is
left Or we can respond to every cutting
dyke and fag comment with a hearty tuck
you,* start swinging whan someone grabs
us on tos street, Ides our lovers whanewr
or Idled. We are forced to choose between a
sudden, vtotent daato at toe hands of our tutors
mf toe kvidtous, Mong murder of our sods.
Quick or slow? We cannot live with these
options; toey create a rage toad is too large to
It is no wonder that we tom to tooughts
of guns. Arming ourselves Is something we
never dare to speak of, and yet we
all have had fantasias of It—per¬
fect sal-defense, bloody revenge.
But what is the actual really of
these attacks against us? How do
we Insure tost our weapons are
not taken from us and turned
against us? Must we all become
expert shots and nvintibie fight¬
ers? Will guns save us? All we
can know right now is that we wf
stop at nothing to defend our¬
selves and our community. We
have toe right to protect every¬
thing we love by any means neo-
essary If someone toreatans you
or touches you. do something
unexpected: Knee him in toe bals
and shout gouge out his eyes,
tear off hia sen, torn rui art donl
stop unti you find a brother or
sister who can take cere of you
We mow too much—our bodes
know too much—to be destroyed.
There are, of courea, many
practical obstacles to procuring
our safety trough toros. Our ene-
mlas toe cope, the homophobes,
the state, toe church, tos worid as
ft Is—will always have more and bigger
wagons fun we. and toey wfl teways be pro¬
tected by a po«c*, social and legal system
founded on Modem, racism and homophobia.
As an army, we may not win—at least not yet
But perhaps « terrorists, guenfla ind silent
secret murderers, we wil pose come debMat-
Ing threat to toe toroee that oppreH us. Maybe
we wfl wtn taster and die less If a few of us
become assassins and martyrs. Maybe we
can't cal tor riots, but we can certainly try to
start them ourselves. Words donT start riots;
rocks and broken bottles do. Mqbe toe most
violent act we can Mid on toe enemy is to
unleash our desire. What would happen If we
fuckad each otoar in the streets, ki toe cfucfws.
we seduced the queer children of public
offices end kicked them In toe streets? Wb
can no longer watt. Our Mbe ration it valu¬
able enough to do what is necessary to
obtain It ImmedUtey. And » we do resort to
violence as a vrey to survive, we must be
prepend to protect one another wlto our Ms.
The culture we heve bun in toe lace of
centuries of vtotenca and hatred Is tostnony
to our abflty, as a trtoe, to survto, but do
not be deceived: TNe cutture—our ways of
helping each other love and work and dream
and c*e—this community,
which Is all we know of
oureelves, trembta6 on toe
edge of extinction. Those
who come after us may
never even know of our
existence. Lite uniter geno¬
cide demands sxtrema
measures. Every day, we
come closer and closer
end doaar to acting on our
fantasies of uMHon and
revenge—shooting George
and Barbara Bush with
HIV bullets, killing cops
with nightsticks ripped
from their own gloved
hands—as we let our-
mMs teal toe fid extent of
our suffering, unnecessary
suffering kvfllcted by M-
tulonsandlndMduflswho
have power over our Me
and um It only to Imple¬
ment our deaths.
It to a terrifying rete-
latlon, and yet the day
may coma, drawn out of
us by a future spent wit¬
nessing the deaths of those we love and
cannot save, vtoen noting standi between
us wd that ultimate act of fury—not awn
the pleasure, won by a flelme of struggle,
we take In our own desks wfl prevent us
from progressing to tote acton. We rmy be
acting In dasperebon-tor every assassin,
avenger and terrorist Is Wed. tortured, put
•way tor Be or executed—but we *1 te »
be acting out of tatth. Your He Is more valu¬
able than mine, and If I cannot save your We,
md »I cannot give my He tor yours, toan
toe toes of you wfl make my fle unMbto,
and I wfl oome. In time, to hate so much
toose whose hatred has teksn toe Ight from
your eyes tote I wfl heve no choice but to
we damn wel please and face getting hurt In toe courtrooms, on TV? Or better yet whte I kfl toem-tt 1 have your courage.T
desire to get che Zodiac
shooter off the streets,
the lesbian and gay
community would un¬
doubtedly now be
( faced with a far less
grim situation.
According to the
J mayor's liaison to the
j lesbian and gay com-
o munity, Marjorie Hill
£ (who told Out Week
that she did not 'have
the time to talk about such a complex
subject*), Dinkins has apparently
expressed his concern about anti-gay
violence almost exclusively through her
office. There have been several meet¬
ings with Police Commissioner Lee
Brown to take up the topic of anti-gay
violence, but the only pubiidy acknowl¬
edged substantive result of those meet¬
ings has been the promised resuscitation
of the Mayor’s Police Council on Les¬
bian and Gay Issues. It is scheduled to
have its first meeting under the Dinkins
administration on Oct. 17.
The Panthers' prowl through pre¬
dominantly gay and lesbian neighbor¬
hoods also has an effect on the per¬
formance of the cops because there is
always the possibility that the Pan¬
thers will reach back into their com¬
munity-patrol heritage and emerge
with arms. At this point, while guns
may not be an answer that everybody
endorses, the threat of guns may be
part of that answer. The fact is that
we need more attention paid to anti¬
gay bias crimes; the question of who
will provide it remains outstanding. Y
“Many thanks for
helping us in a time
of need. Rosie was a
very important part of
Richard’s life and
knowing she had
good care when
needed was a comfort
hr HTV+people
inkins' multifaceted failures
regarding this community are
all the more frustrating and
outrageous because of the
tremendous support gay men
and lesbians gave to his may-
oral campaign just a year ago. Having
only to see him disregard our interests
again and again, it is now time to realize
that he may have sold this constituency
the Brooklyn Bridge. At best, Dinkins is
a masterful politician, and since we
know how to play that game too, per¬
haps the time has arrived for lesbians
and gay men to begin battering the
mayor with the kind of blistering public
criticism that prods even uninterested
officeholders into action.
Meanwhile, the ris e a nd prolifera¬
tion—of the Pink Panthers gives hope
that at some future date, the hatred
against us will be stymied. While it is
infuriating that we have had to amass our
own resources to confront the terror of
anti-gay and anti-lesbian assaults because
the ciy agencies in whose province pub¬
lic safety should fall have consistently
neglected this crisis, the fact that we have
successfully organized a high-profile
intervent i on force throws the lackadaisi¬
cal efforts of the police info high relief.
(212)744-0842
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October 24 27 1990 « Ihc Vislo Hofei • New York City
| You Won t
See The
Some Old
Faces...
sr Announced: Keynote Speakers
and KRS-ONE of Boogie Down Productions
M run OR WHAT? CAU (518) 4M-0000 FOR MORt INFORM A TI0M
She has sharked
and astounded critics
and audiences around the
worn!. And , vowing to perform her
cvWlving M;is(|ii(‘ of flu* Red Dcsifli
a mil the end of the AIDS crisis ,
Diamanda (ia/as once again
brings her chilling nln/ations
to Sew York.
MOURNING
BECOMES
DIAMANDA
by Robert Hilferty
nother of those
sweltering July
days in New
York. It was
1988—seven
years into the
AIDS crisis, but
only 18 months
since President
Reagan first ut¬
tered the name of the disease—and here
was avant-garde singer Diamonds Galas
taking to a podium at the ninth annual
New Music Seminar in the air-condi¬
tioned audtorium of the Marrioc Marquis
Hotel. She had something to say
'I've just completed a trilogy that is
sons with AIDS who are now living and
dying in Cadaiacs, in hotel rooms, cruci¬
fied h hospitals, and are everywhere you
don't think they are," she told the audi¬
ence. "And let me tel! you something
efec WhiJe you’re sitting here, having a
good time, think about somebody who’s
lying in vomit bags, lying in perspiration
and in dirty old sheets. ..And when you
aren’t too busy eating pussy and getting
autographs, you might go to an ACT UP
meeting tomorrow night There’s a little
bit of education for all of you homo¬
phobes, far all of you impotents, for all
of you cowards, for all of you ass-lidcen,
for ail of you motherfuckers—but that
would be too nice for you."
The crowd of 2,000 was first
shocked into silence. Wtthin moments,
however, Galas was bedded and booed.
But die refused to leave the stage and
finished Iter speech.
The historic lecture, which Galas
later entitled ‘New Correlations in Male
Heterosexual Impotence and Homopho¬
bia," was a response to years of resis¬
tance she’d encountered from the music
industry since she began her "plague
mass' Masque of the Red Death . in 1984.
the first major musical performance work
about the AIDS crisis And though much
has happened since. Galas is still often
the target of critics who balk at an activist
response. As recently as January 1989, a
London Tines reviewer wrote: There is
no point in fighting a perverse situation
like AIDS with the perverted music of
Gabs. I myself have several friends wth
AIDS, and I admire and almost envy their
resignation."
Galas laughs wickedly. "My so-
called artistic and business associates
tried to discourage me. They were hop¬
ing that the whole thing would blow
over, that I would become more poise
Well, the music world is foil of cowards,
idiots, impotence and homophobia In
the face of that level of resistance to my
intuition, that attempt to sabotage my
vision. I've had to say, The Mike Tyson
of the voice does not waste time talking
about bullshit."
And how. Committed to the voice as
the ultimate performance instrument,
Gabs goes beyond the limits of tradition¬
al vocal e x pre ssi on. As-if her natural bd
canto range of three and a half octaves
were not enough. Dcamanda has created
a superhuman vocabulary of screams,
screeches, ululations and whispers.
Morcvoer, she frequently filters and
amplifies her voice through sophisticated
electronic digital processing, creating a
universe of vocal beings.
‘My voice was given to me as an
instrument of inspiration for my friends
and a tool for the torture and destruction
of my enemies," she explains.
In Masque of the Red Death, Gabs
makes dear who her friends and ene¬
mies are. Committed to performing
Masque until the end of the epidemic,
Gabs has dedicated the work to people
who are HIV-positive, PWARCs and
PWAs who fight to stay alive in a hostile
environment that teds them on a daily
basis that they shall most certainly
die—an environment that offers disgust¬
ing pity and pacifying lies to persuade
the diseased man to desist from fighting
and participate instead in he own burial;
that offers the constant threat of manda¬
tory testing, reporting and quarantine,
and that offers slow torture and continu¬
ing design of death, or genocide, through
a failure to act responsMy in a medical
emergency."
Her work does not stop at her
voice. Gabs is on the streets and in the
hospitals every day. As a member of ACT
UP/NY, she was arrested in St Patrick’s
Cathedral in December. In her affidavit to
the New York City Criminal Court she
stated: "This ‘house of compassion’
impedes the work of people who, as
modern-day saints, are trying to work
together to find a solution to this epidem¬
ic. It impedes their work by lobbying
against the progress of AIDS research
and concentrating oo a Levs icon witch
hunt of immoral cau*es.._Let us pray in
word and in deed for the afflicted." Her
enemies are those who regard AIDS as
divine retribution, the witch-hunters, the
gay-bashers and those who do nothing
O. U 4 .r ST. IMS OUnMIK 41
“/ developed an extreme
technique to ride the
outer limits. ”
to fight the disease. Because Masque
•charts the geography of a plague men¬
tality," Galas refers to the Masque trilogy
CIbe Divine Punishment, Saint of the Ptt
and YouMust Be Certain of the DeviQ as i
-plague mass.*
The aspect that most concerns me,'
she explains, *ts how people arc being
treated—the tragedy of the outcast '
day theater pieces. At the suggestion of
Luc Theodor of the Living Theatre, she
performed in mental institutions,
singing with her bade to the patients.
These vocal Improvisations gave birth
to a visceral, emotional, wordless lan¬
guage of shrieks, screams and whispers
which are an integral port of her work.
"I started without any vocal training,*
emergent art form." Shamanistic rather
than operatic, ritualistic rather than arty,
Galas comes from a sonic world which
b pretextual and muitUrnguisitic. In all
of her performances, Galas 'speaks in
tongues.* an hysterical and frenzied bar¬
rage of nonverbal utterances and frag¬
ments from six languages. This giosao-
Lalia e x presses a state of mind bom of
inspired by Antonin Artaud. According
to Galas, *Hb theater of cruelty” was
about painful rigor, a piercing of the
eyeballs to see the new."
T he aesthetic and politi¬
cal roads which have
lead to the creation of
Masque came out of her
personal and artistic
experience. Galas' voice
has always explored
states of human suffer¬
ing and isolation, as in Pancptikon and
skiers. *1 have always dealt with the con¬
cept of a black box, in which a person b
being interrogated, which represents
extreme claustrophobia. I've dealt with
the issues of schizophrenia and the tor¬
ture of political criminals,* she says.
Indeed, Galas identifies with witches and
heretics, with those who have been stig¬
matized by society, those who challenge
the world with new ideas and new ways
of being. Never before has her music
«s was bom in
San Diego to Greek immi¬
grants. A music prodigy, she
performed Beethoven s first
Piano Concerto with die Son
Diego Symphony at age 14.
But she didn't groom herself
for a performing career via
conventional routes. Instead, she spent
some time in San Francisco playing jazz
piano and in Oakland's Genet-like
underworld living and working with
by the name Madame Zina Her poly¬
morphous^ perverse lifestyle In this
drug-frenzied demimonde came to a
grinding halt when she was hospitalized.
*1 don't want to go into it,* she says,
wincing, all at once reflecting the pain
she endured during that time.
After returning to San Diego and
playing with a few Cuban dance bands.
Galas gave a series of performances
which mark the roots of her present-
. I developed an extreme
technique to ride the outer limits, the
outer limits of the soul. I called these
wordless songs 'intravenal.' Something
so visceral occurs before the formation
of words. They are blood screams."
Shocked by vocal tapes of these asy¬
lum performances, Vmko Globokar. the
Yugoslavian avant-garde composer, invit¬
ed Galas to Paris to perform the lead
role of hb opera IM Jour Comme (Me
Autre, a work based upon the true story
of a Turkish woman arrested and tor¬
tured to death for treason. Later, Galas
returned to Paris for performances of her
solo works Wild Women With Steak
Knives and Tragoutbia apo to Alma
Exoun Fonos (Song from the Blood of
Those Murdered) in the underground
Theatre Gerard Phfllippe Saint-Denis
The ensuing radical and idiosyncrat¬
ic c ar eer , which has brought Galas inter¬
national fame, defies category. She shies
away from the term ‘performance artist*
'No one else does what I do. I’m an
theater seemed so immediately relevant
as during the AIDS crisb.
Perhaps even more so because
persona] tragedy permeates Masque.
Philip-Dmitri Galas, her playwright
brother (the creator of Mona Rogers),
died from AIDS-related complications
in 1986 during the composition of Saint
of the Pit 'I found the poems of Nerval
and Corbiere In a book of Philip’s
which he gave me two weeks before he
died, and I recorded them in Berlin
immediately after hb death,* she recalls.
‘The horror of his death and (his]
departure from my life do not dimin¬
ish—they increase like the nightmares
of anyone who has witnessed a homi¬
cide.* In the performance, describing
the government’s inaction during the
AIDS crisis, she screams from a pulpit:
"Don’t believe the lies! Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome b hocra-
cklef* Galas recalls her brother's death
with the crucifixion piece, *CrtsD Aveu-
gjf ('Blind Man’s Cry* by Tristan Cor-
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Wet was the word.
You were wet.
dripping with
sweat. The
windows were
fogged behind the
dancer who was
wet and wild. The
gyrations of your
body made me
wet my lips. I
thought, why in a
place like the Clit
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the courage to ask
you to
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» as well. You axe a
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gasp of a man condemned to a lonely
death. Galas' voice alternates between
morbid alto groans and high-pitched
screams. In the upcoming performance
at Sl John die Divine, she will conclude
with this dense and moving song
She sees herself as a medium
through which the dead can speak.
‘Masque is an ex p re ssio n of the anger of
the dead,* she says. "The dead are not
nonexistent. When I think of Philip, I
think of him screaming with anger,
demanding revenge. U»r who have died
shall never rest in peace.*
In the third pan of Masque, You
Must Be Certain of the Devil, she speaks
with guns. Her mourning becomes
militant: an uncompromising call to arms
in which she draws upon the Greek
Maniot tradition of dirge-singing where
mourning becomes a sworn oath of
vengeance. ‘Guns are important,* she
says. ‘Liberals and politically correct peo¬
ple arc terrified of violence and complain
about it ex post facto.* in “Double Band
Prayer* she sings: "The dogs have come
today/The dogs have come to stay ./It's
time to get your gun oul/And drive the
dogs away.’ And in * Malediction,' she
targets enemies: The arms that you cut
off that Sunday night are the arms that
point me to the red eyes of the Pente¬
costal killers and the black eyes of the
Roman Catholic killers and the blue eyes
of the pinhead skinhead killers. ..The
arms that you cut off that Sunday night
are the arms that wait between my TV
and my gun....*
ast August, the Italian press
denounced Galas' performance as
"blasphemous,* not only because
of her ‘Sono LAnticbrtstcf texts
but also because of her bald dec¬
laration, ‘Give me sodomy, or
give me death.* Though she was
arrested inside St. Patrick's
Cathedral last year, Galas has no qualms
about her upcoming performance at St.
John the Divine, a church which she says
has been in the forefront of combating
AIDS with nonjudgmental compassion.
Still, she acknowledges that it's the
first time she's performed in a church,
and that it was not an easily made deci¬
sion: The promoters were afraid of pre¬
senting me in church because my work
is perceived as Satanic, which it is. But at
Since Masque is an ongoing pro¬
ject, Galas reshapes her masterpiece
each time. At St. John’s, the upcoming
performance of Masquewii include the
premiere of There Arc No More Tick¬
ets to the Funeral* (which was present¬
ed in part during the San Francisco
AIDS Conference). Perhaps the most
riveting and startling sequence, 'Funer¬
al* is an unrelenting indictment of the
voyeur and his emotional distance, a
scathing attack on the cowardice and
complicity of those ‘who conspire to
lead the afflicted to their graves.’ But,
as Galas' voice booms: There are no
more tickets to the funeral. The funeral
is crowded.'T
Masque of the Red Death will be
performed by Dianumda Galas at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Amster¬
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liturgical and religious.*
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<tip in private donations.
Altogether, 70 percent of GMHC's
operating budget comes from private
funding sources, with the bulk of that
money generated at special fund-raising
events like the annual AIDS walk. How¬
ever, approximately 14 percent of the
next largest source of income for die or¬
ganization, Individual contributions,
comes from direct-mail solicitation, and
while the profits generated by recent
mailings hold steady, acquisitions of new
danon to the agency have been down.
"'We are going to have to weather a
number of trends in the future,* Burris
predicted. The "90s are not going to be
like the BOs The economy has already
turned down, and that could very dra¬
matically affect our abilities to fundraise.
Even in the corporate sector, on which
some of these events are relatively de¬
pendent, it’s getting much hander *
Anticipating a leveling off and then
a decline in public funding for AIDS,
GMHC has purposely reduced its re¬
liance on government support to about
only 20 percent of the agency's budget.
Some advocates see this decision as a
poor strategic move, arguing that the
leviathan tax-funded US social service
establishment, at least in theory, should
provide these same services anyway.
Larry Kramer, a founder of GMHC who,
in recent years, has become one of the
agency's most vocal critics, described its
funding stance as awkward. They arc
being funded by a system that believes
they are taking care of everything,* the
playwright told OuSXReek 'But the agen¬
cy is very weak in holding the system
accountable to what is ours by right.
GMHC is. in essence, asking the world
to donate money to GMHC to provide
services that the taxpayer has already
paid for.* But while the decision to sur¬
render an appropriate portion of public
money may imply a lack of commitment
to advocacy, it also means that GMHC is
not forced to rely on the whims of
politicians to keep its services top-notch.
On a policy level, GMHC has re¬
portedly recently adopted a lobbying
strategy that decisively moves away
from the moral-obligation arguments for
public funding that dominated its early
applications to the government for fi¬
nancial support in the fight against
AIDS. Instead, advocates are increasingly
bending the cars of elected officials with
smart economic analysis chat reflects the
shift away from the credit-card mentality
of the BOs If you spend $10 now on ed¬
ucation, prevention and basic health
care, the reasoning goes, you wont have
to spend $1,000 later bailing out the
health care industry and carrying the
weight of hundreds of thousands of fi¬
nancially devastated PWAs.
GMHC and the Gay Community
GMHC is, without a doubt, going to
have to fight harder for donations from
individuals. But the organization Is also
strapped with what one observer diplo¬
matically r e fe rred to as a "public relations
problem.* Responding to years of
scathing criticism for its reputation as an
dxist, gay-white-male organization in the
business of fighting an epidemic that has
increasingly affected a disproportionate
number of low-income African Ameri¬
cans and Latinos, GMHC has made a
concerted effort to draw more women
and people of color with AIDS into the
matrix of its services and the tanks of its
staff and volunteers. But it is now faced
w«h the delicate issue of assuring its af¬
fluent donor base of primarily gay white
men that it will continue to provide ser¬
vices to gay white PWAs in a comfortable
and supportive environment.
‘Because we have made a special
commitment to the gay community, the
majority of people who work here are
gays,' added Carisa Cunningham, a
GMHC spokesperson who, along with
colleagues Geoffrey Knox, Tommy
Thompson and Denise Dalton, is among
a growing number of heterosexuals in
high-ranking positions at the agecncy.
At present, while the percentage
of gay men GMHC serves has steadily
decreased over the past three years, its
caseload is still overwhelmingly gay.
Similarly, though the numbers of
African-American and Latino clients
have increased substantially since
1987. the majority of GMHC dtents are
white. And though the number of
women with AIDS who seek assistance
through GMHC has almost doubled,
there are still more than nine men at
the agency for every one woman.
GMHC has found other effective
ways of reaching out to people of col¬
or and women with AIDS, too, most
notably by deploying technical teams
to assist AIDS-scrvicc organizations in
communities of color to set up ser¬
vices that parallel GMHC programs but
are specifically designed to address
the needs of those agencies' dienteie.
This strategy assists other community-
based organizations, like the Minority
Task Force on AIDS, to avoid the pit-
fails of starting programs from scratch.
And It also provides GMHC with an
opportunity to contribute to infrastruc¬
tural community-building, an effort
that has proven necessary to effective¬
ly fight the whole of social problems
AIDS has so starkly illuminated.
This is all uncharted territory,* ob¬
served Geoffrey Knox, chief spokes¬
person for GMHC, referring to the trial-
and-error method that has characterized
much of AIDS social-service develop¬
ment. That's the real challenge.* ▼
FUND
Fund has been on. ‘By the time Rob
Brading inherited all of this,* Mickens
said pointedly, "no one knew how bad
it had gotten.*
The final factor Mickens identified
in the conspiracy of circumstances that
shut the Fund down was what he
termed ‘fractious bickering* in the
community over the events going on
inside the Fund. He bitterly criticized
this magazine, which broke the first
story on the upheavals at the Pund, for
fanning the flames of contention by
continuing to print stories about the
Ftind's problems.
But other observers, inducting for¬
mer staff members, who have closely
watched the Fund as it has attempted
to get its programs back in operation,
think that the closing of the Fund was
inevitable. *The way the Fund was
being run, it was bound to close,*
remarked Reggie Harris, who left the
Fund In the employee walkout over a
breakdown of the Fund's operations.
•No one really wanted it to go out of
business because we need that ser¬
vice,* continued Harris, who now
works as the administrative assistant at
Out trank magazine.
At this point, board co-chair
Wilson disclosed, the Fund is
exploring the option of selling the
Fund’s two most prominent pro¬
grams, the Crisisline and the Re¬
source Center, to an extant lesbian
and gay organization. T
Life’s little ironies:
The current
P«nthou»o bus
shelter ad (left)
usee two gey men
to advertise a
publication so
overtly geared to
straight males,
while the Catholic
Church has hung out
a shingle for a
homeless shelter on
East 4th Street
which they have
called Mary-
house—and, as W
that weren’t ironic
enough, it’s just a
couple of doors
down from Quentin
Crisp’s place. (Then
again, this might not
be that ironic.
Perhaps Maryhouse
Is where they send
Father Ritter and his
kind after they’re
defrocked.)
Ptooto*: Michael Wakaflald
As this westbound train hurtles through
the darkness, and I nervously dutch a hatbox
and a box of fudge in addition to my own
battered baggage, I know that I am reminded
of something. But what’ Of course, my first
impulse is to say, ‘Part Four of Jacques God-
bout's masterful story of rupture, Le Couteau
sur la Table" except that that particular train
in that particular talc was traveling east. Per¬
haps, then, I'm recalling the opening chapter
of M.T. Kelly's I Do Remember the Fall, where
the train was certainly headed west but only
so far as Elk Brain, Saskatchewan. Perhaps,
though, I’m not. At any rate, this situation
feels mighty familiar, which is more than can
be said about anything back home.
Back home—and even now, after all
these years, I am not entirely comfortable referring to Man¬
hattan as borne, one does not as, Joan Didion observed,
•live* at Xanadu—in Manhattan, the familiar was slipping
away at an astonishingly rapid rate. To give an example:
When I arrived at my office on the 51st floor of the Out-
Week building one pearly Tuesday morning last week, I was
met by yet another woman, the third in as many months,
who identified herself as Edelweiss, the personnel liaison,
but who, from a certain angle, looked like Gwen Verdon,
the musical comedy star. I started to apologize for not
awarding the engraved pastry marble to her 'aunt"'s entry
In the now-defunct Annual Summer Fudge Competition, but
she simply shrugged and said, ‘Life.’ Then she invited me
into my own office (where the furniture had apparently
been rearranged during the night) and told me that she'd
come to discuss my travel plans. Noting my confusion,
Edelweiss said that she'd been informed by my editor that I
intended to take a short trip, and she wanted to explain the
OutWeek vacation policy (which turns out to be nonexis¬
tent) as well as to give me some travel brochures. While my
editor had, in fact, suggested a little rest, preferably some
place quite very far away. I’d not really given the matter
much consideration. Now Edelweiss pressed some pam¬
phlets into my hand and left, humming *We Both Reached
for the Gun." Only then did I notice that the portrait of
Kendall Morrison which usually hung on the wall next to
where my desk used to be had been replaced with an
almost faultless reproduction of David’s The Death of Marat
(except this Marat was holding a copy of my column in his
lifeless hand). The telephone rang at that moment, and the
caller whispered, "Aber etwas feblf and hung up.
That evening. I went 'Dining Out!' at the Berck-Plage
Restaurant, where electrifyingly colored sherbets were
scooped from the freeze by pale girls. My friends Alvin and
Earl did not show up (I learned later that Alvin had
thought, mistakenly, that it was a fast
day), but Johann, the pianist from the
revolving cocktail lounge of the Marriott
Marquis Hotel, did unexpectedly sit
down at my table. I expressed surprise,
and he said, after ordering the macker¬
el, that he'd come to discuss my travel
plans. He went on to say that he'd
heard once again from my old school
chum Julian, and it was now imperative
that 1 go to see him. I tried, once more,
to make Johann understand that 1 don't
know anybody named Julian, but he
refused, as always, to listen. He
Instructed me to examine carefully the
brochures I'd obtained from Edelweiss
and to make arrangements to go to the
second place: 'But you will not go to the second place.
Instead I shall meet you at the train station and give you
your new directions.* In vain, I attempted to tell Johann
that I really wasn't planning on taking a vacation, that other
people were forcing this decision on me. He merely said:
*You have already grievously failed the community once by
refusing to deliver our message. It would be inadvisable to
disappoint us a second time. Remember, please, to bring
the packages—the hatbox and the fudge—you were given
three weeks ago.* He left fust as the bill was brought to the
tabic, along with some black and green lozenges. (The
meal, by the by, was superb, but that discussion belongs to
some other occasion.)
1 did not, of course, leave town right away, but
other events, which could be taken as somehow sinis¬
ter, helped convince me that this might be a good time
to get out of the city for a little while. For example, my
videocassette of Torch Song was switched with a copy
of Torch Song Trilogy. The furniture was completely
removed from my office during the lunch interval. And
finally, when the Contributing Writers Grievance Com¬
mittee phone-tree called three times within 48 hours to
notify me of a demonstration, a community forum and
a $200-a-plate fund-raiser, I packed my sweaters and
my medication, grabbed the hatbox and the fudge and
took a taxi straight to Grand Central Station, where
Johann was patiently waiting at the newsstand.
The idea that this journey will in some way benefit die
community does allay certain of my apprehensions. But I
do not know where exactly, other than westward, I am
headed on this train. I do not know who this Julian is
whom I am supposed to meet. All I do know is that when I
reach the border. I am to open the candy box and wear the
hat. Everything else, so they tell me, will be made apparent
in its own wise. The fudge, by the by, is a bit gritty.▼
By Bradley Ball
[ hat the fuck Is
going on? Are
we in denial
(once again)?
Looking the other way?
Accepting the reality of what’s happening around us
because “that's just the way things are"? LETTING THESE
BASTARDS SHIT ALL OVER US?
I do think so, girls and boys.
The column that was planned for this week was
bumped because, while walking around the other night, I
found myself flying off into one of those rages—the kind
that turns me from a happy-go-lucky sort into a screaming
monster and makes me wish that I had a fucking word pro¬
cessor right there so that I could get all of this shit OUT OP
MY SYSTEM AND DOWN
ONTO PAPER, DAMN IT! (It
happens a lot. This time the
scary, painful metamorphosis
occurred as I was entering the
video store to return a couple
of really bad movies, which,
admittedly, had probably set
the stage for the anger that
overtook me.)
I ran home in a tizzy,
ripped off my leather, cleared
the keyboard and went off...
...WAKE THE PUCK UP,
PEOPLE! We are being bashed
on the streets! KILLED! BLUD¬
GEONED! MURDERED! SHOT1
STABBED! ASSAULTED! BEAT¬
EN! GOUGED! SLASHED!
ATTACKED! SLAUGHTERED!
And all of us—ALL OP
US—somewhere inside, think
we deserve this. After all, we're
fags and dykes. And as we
were taught, that means we're
freaks of nature —queen Who
could blame the normal people
for beating us up? For killing
us? And even if attacking soci¬
ety's less-fortunate is a wrong
thing to do, there's no reason
that anyone should make a big
deal of it, right? I mean, there
are so many more important
kinds of people being victim¬
ized during this nasty New
York crime wave—business
executives, tourists, children.
Who could blame the media for
forgetting about us, even
though we are the NUMBER-
ONE group targeted in bias
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crimes right this moment,
according to our own
police department?
Yes. we literally sit
around on the telephone
saying to each other: “Mary was attacked last rught .Yeah,
stabbed. It’s terrible....Uh, huh . Of course, it wasn't in the
papers....There was nothing about it on television,
either....Yeah, well, you know, no one cares about gays.
What are ya gonna do?...Yeah, that’s how it is.* And then
we proceed, on with our lives until our next friend, lover or
co-worker retells a horrible story. Perhaps some of us even
just look the other way. After all, we’ve got too many
other things to do. Maybe we can sort of get caught up In
our lives, make ourselves real busy and—presto! This honor
will magically go away, right?
And even we, in the gay media,
are not immune to an eerie blast
attitude and a gross desenritiza-
tion that begins to occur when
one has heard of bashing after
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EVERYONE!
By Miebelaigeli SiiHirile
BUT WHEN THE PUCK
ARE WE ALL GOING TO DO
SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
When will we get on top of the
dry government? When are we
going to demand that the
media uncover the truth about
what is happening? Why are
we just sitting around staring at
each other with dour looks on
our faces?
QUEERS. THERE IS A
FUCKING GUN ON THE
COVER OF THIS MAGAZINE.
A GUNS! This is what it’s come
down to. ARE YOU REALLY
READY FOR THAT? It's abso¬
lutely chilling!
Meanwhile, your comatose
mayor Isn't even doing the
measly bit he could do: give lip
service to this epidemic of
hate. No, not only Is Dinkins
not loudly and publicly con¬
demning what's happening,
but—at the height of what is
truly a grave, horrific crisis of
crime, disproportionately
affecting us—our “liaison to the
gay and lesbian community* is
not lighting a fire under the
mayor’s ass. Marjorie Hill, your
honeymoon is over. The ball is
rolling. WHAT THE FUCK ARE
YOU DOING?
47
Every time I turn around, another
friend, another person I love, has been
brutally and senselessly attacked. How
many more grotesque stories will we
have to endure? How many more
bloodied people do we have to take to
the hospital? HOW MANY MORE
TIMES WILL WE WAKE UP IN PAIN
AFTER HAVING SEEN A BAT CRASH
AGAINST OUR OWN HEADS?
The number of reported violent
crimes against queers has soared
beyond belief—up 107 percent so far
this year in New York City! And only a
fraction of the anti-gay bias crimes
occurring are actually being reported to
the police. How I deduce that is sim¬
ple: Of those crimes reported, I some¬
how always se e m to know the victim
or have friends who know the victim
(odd in a city where there are upwards
of a million lesbians and gay men,
wouldn’t you say?). The reason is that
the people reporting the crimes are
almost always activists—the type of
individuals whom I tend to know and
who of course would report an anti¬
gay assault targeting them. If so many
people in the small activist queer com¬
munity are being attacked, how many
in the larger lesbian and gay communi¬
ty are savagely victimized every day
and—especially in the case of more
doseted types—are simply not report¬
ing it?
But reported or not, OUR MEDIA
ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB. People
are being beaten and murdered. AN
ATTACK IS OCCURRING ALMOST
EVERY SINGLE DAY1 Where are the
headlines? The editorials? The New
York Times op-ed pieces’ The explo¬
sive, if exploitative, television news
spots? Nothing. Not a fucking thing.
PEOPLE. WE ARE BEING BLUD¬
GEONED ON THE STREETS, AND WE
ARE SITTING AROUND ACCEPTING
THE FACT THAT THE STRAIGHT
WORLD DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT And
that’s what they’d like us to
do—blindly accept our own extermi¬
nation, much as they've tried to instill
the same demented mentality in us
with regard to the AIDS crisis.
Racial violence and antisemitism
become front-page news. That is the
stuff that sells papers—for days and
days and days! Boycotts of Korean gro¬
ceries? Great! Blacks being shot by
whites in Bensonhurst? Good copy!
Patrick Buchanan defiling Jews? PAY
DIRT But queers being killed? No, no,
no. No way. It just doesn't sell. Can’t
exploit it. Fags and dykes, after all,
DESERVE IT!
Well, not ME. And not YOU
either NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO
LET THESE BASTARDS FUCK US
OVER. We are not going to let them
dust us under the carpet. They have
a responsibility to report the news.
And we ARE the fucking news right
now. And we’re going to shove our¬
selves in their fat. ugly, straight,
white, male faces! Call slimy Max
Frankel at the Times, and call Jerry
Nachman, the lip-service liberal at
the Post. Tell them that their cover¬
age of the anti-gay violence epidemic
is grossly inadequate, that we want
the same treatment as every other
community and that their negligence
makes them ACCESSORIES TO MUR¬
DER! Tell them we want front-page,
sensational headlines and not some
little story buried in the paper! Call
the editors of Newsday and the Daily
News. Call that lying creep Ed Kosner
at New York. Call Time. Call
Newsweek. CALL EVERYONE. CALL
THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN AND
AGAIN AND AGAIN. COMPLAIN!
SCREAM! YELL! THIS IS YOUR UFE
BEING PLAYED WITH BY A BUNCH
OF MONEY-HUNGRY, BIGOTED
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. CALL
YOUR FRIENDS AND TELL THEM TO
CALL. AND TELL THEM TO CALL
THEIR FRIENDS. FAX THIS COL¬
UMN—AND ALL OF THESE PHONE
NUMBERS—TO EVERYONE!
And then get yourself into the
streets and scream. Go and join
Queer Nation and organize protests
outside ALL of the aforementioned
monsters' offices, homes and—espe¬
cially—outside of their social events
where we can embarrass them to the
max. Queer Nation must up the ante
and utilize civil disobedience as a
tactic. And it must target the medial
We must be willing to go as far as
we have to—BY ANY MEANS NEC¬
ESSARY—because this is literally a
war, complete with all the blood, the
gore and the dead fucking bodies.
AND ONLY WE ARE GOING TO
SAVE OURSELVES.
As for me, I can’t wait for the glo¬
rious day when the first gay-basher is
killed in the act I just hope I'm nearby
so that I can take out a machete, cut
open his skull, rip out his bloody, dis¬
turbed brain...
AND TAKE IT UP TO THE NEW
YORK TIMES TO HURL IT ACROSS
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by Martha 6ever
Even a couple of years ago.
assembling work for a festival dedicat¬
ed to new lesbian and gay videotape*
would have been either a modest pro¬
ject or fust plain frustrating. There sim¬
ply wasn't much. The limited list of
tapes with lesbian or gay themes,
imagery or characters were routinely
recycled among the var¬
ious lesbian and gay
film festivals, where
video programs often
functioned as a second
thought or sidebar to*
the more glamorous big-screen offer¬
ings—if video was shown at alL
With the advent of the Lookout
Festival, an entirely different dilemma
arises: The number of stylistic variety of
apes collected for this event may well
overwhelm a dedicated viewer Festival
curator Catherine Saalfidd's selection of
more than 70 opes, clustered themati¬
cally into 12 pro¬
grams. features little
that could be called
predictable. Granted,
there are several titles
here that have already
circulated widely an the screening cir¬
cuits—PhU Zwidder and David Woj-
narowicz's searing monologue on ques¬
tions of honesty and dishonesty
encountered by HIV-positive men. Fear
of Disclosure, and Jean Cariomusto and
Gregg Bordowitz's pioneering lesbian
safer-sex short. Current Flow, for exam¬
ple—but the strength of the festival is
the wealth of work that has received
little exposure to date, including a
number of New York premieres.
Another welcome aspect to this
event is that for a change, the work
addressed to gay men doesn’t over¬
shadow that with lesbian appeal—the
benefit, perhaps, of DCTVs decision to
engage a lesbian programcr who also
makes videotapes, writes about lesbian
topics as well as alternative media and
is politically active. Prominently fea¬
tured in the program, for Instance, is
Dry Kisses Only, Jane Colds and Kaucy-
Ua Brooke's extended video essay on
the perils and pleasures experienced by
moviegoing lesbians. Intercut with an
demic analysis of classic dykes in con¬
ventional cinema—think of Joan Craw¬
ford in Johnny Guitar or the Countess
Geschwitz in Pandora's Beer—an Cot-
tis and Brooke's lesbian-on-lhc-street
interviews, in these segments, women
in various public places are asked to
recount their favorite examples of les¬
bian cinematic pleasure, which range
from the ever-popular Queen Christina
to Monika Treut's recent Virgin
Machine. Although obviously prear¬
ranged encounters, these interludes
provide the link between the video-
makers’ detailed (at 75 minutes, maybe
too detailed) survey of the lesbian sub¬
texts of Western film culture and the
LIVE —Kttharine Hepburn in
Christophsr Strong
MEMOREX— Brooke as Baxter In
M About Evt
animated discussions about movies that
occur regularly in our subcultures.
In addition to the intelligence that
informs this video version of lesbian
film criticism—an antidote to the
absencc/denial of lesbian perspectives
in contemporary feminist film theo¬
ry —Dry Kisses Only sustains a low-key
hilarity throughout. One of the wittiest
pasages in the tape occurs when
Brooke replaces Anne Baxter in the
emotional scene in AH About Eve where
Eve Carrington first meets her idol,
Margo Charming (Bette Davis). Brooke
rewrites and reenacts Eve's autobio¬
graphical speech as a lesbian story,
complete with all the overwrought
pathos of Baxter's performance.
Comedy, in multiple guises,
emerges as a strong suit in Lookout’s
lesbian lineup. Joystick Blues, by lisa
Ginsberg and Mickl Guralski. presents a
pe rfe ct l y paced takeoff on lesbian pom,
with expectations repeatedly thwarted
In favor of the foibles of everyday exis¬
tence. Humor tempers Hraflnhilder
Gurmarsdoctir's enigmatic meditation on
gender identities, Sbt Begins, which
plays with the analogy of identity and
image via new-age video technology
enabling hairstyle selection. In a similar
vein, Carol Ashley and Kathy Clarke's
■video performance,' Bathroom Gender.
not only encapsulates the personal
development of a buich-to-be but ren¬
ders the autobiographical anecdote with
a deadpan severity that encourages
knowing amusement
These three short tapes, all in the
•Cruisin' the Rubyfruit" program, are
engaging and well conceived, but in
terms of ideas, they are practically one-
liners. The exception to this all-too-
commoo problem of video shorts and
first tapes is Sadie Benning's Me 6
Rubyfruit. the inspiration of the pro¬
gram's title. Indeed. Benning's tape is
the delightful discovery of the festival
(not all tapes were available for pre¬
view, however). What’s most surpris¬
ing about the four-minute piece is that
it was made by a 17-year-old working
with a video outfit sold as a toy—the
$100 Ftschcr-Price pixel camera—and
editing while shooting. Borrowing a
few sentences from Rita Mae Brown's
classic, the tape conveys a mood of
adolescent lesbian longing and confu¬
sion echoed in the barely resolved
dreamy black-and-white pictures sub¬
tided with handwritten texts that repeat
the spoken words on the soundtrack:
“Girls cant get married.* “Says who?*
It’s a rule.’ It’s a dumb rule.* Concise
and unpretentious to the point of
understatement, Benning uses her
camera like an electronic sketchbook,
a move she repeats In If Every Girl
Had a Diary, although with more ado¬
lescent anger and angst, and less con¬
trol. than in Me & Rubyfruit.
Several of the tapes by gay men in
the festival are likewise accomplished
contributions to the expanding domain
of lesbian and gay media. High on that
list are five tapes by Richard Fung,
compri si ng a retrospective of the elo¬
quent, complex work by this Chinese-
Trinidadian-Canadian anist (see accom¬
panying profile by Karl Soehnlein).
Tom Rubnitz's three videos —The
Fairies, Pickle Surprise and Strauberry
Shortcut —present the most recent
installments in his ongoing series of
campy, parodic period pieces. In the
latter two tapes, Rubnkz delves into the
genre of quickie cooking tips, devising
promos for less-than-appetizing but
genuinely all-American snacks that
seem apt products of
our perverse collec¬
tive unconscious.
Marlon Riggs'
Tongues Untied, one
of the video high¬
lights of the past year. Is notably
absent from the festival, presumably
because it has been shown numerous
times in the city, most recently to a
packed house at the Lesbian and Gay
Experimental Film Festival. Lookout
instead offers Riggs' more recent Affir¬
mations, a tape compiled from
Tongues outtakes but nonetheless
powerful on its own. In a sense. Affir¬
mations picks up where Tongues
Untied ended, using a combination of
very personal and very public docu¬
mentary footage of African-American
gay men to envision the possibilities
for reconciling divided identities and
communities—African-American and
gay at once.
Another well-crafted tape dealing
with cultural displacement is Andrew
Pinter's Rofo Vim, an ostensible portrait
of a Mexican teenager broke, illegal
and adrift in San Diego. Ricky, the
teenage subject, decides to hustle for a
living, commenting. “It’s better than
working in a taco shop * But, despite
all his charm and resourcefulness, his
life remains quite bleak. The clever
twist comes when Ricky, who has been
speaking only Spanish, says a few
words in the final scene—in perfect
idiomatic English. The device works
effectively, unbalancing
the cultural dichts nec¬
essary to die voyeuristic
narrative without un¬
dermining the descrip¬
tion of economic and
81
Character Study
An interview with Richard Fung, whose
video work will have a retrospective at the
Lookout Festival
political forces played out to the pseu¬
do-documentary
And there’s more too much for a
critic to digest—indeed a lot to
squeeze into six consecutive evenings.
Still, sensory overload can be produc¬
tive, and a response to the prolifera¬
tion of lesbian and gay media tapped
by Saalfleid and DCTV can be found to
two of the festival's opening programs
devoted to Britain's Out on Tuesday
series. For the past two years, Channel
Four to Britain has commissioned and
aired this magazine program on les¬
bian and gay concerns (a third season
is to the works), with materia] made by
independent lesbian and gay film and
video-makers. In addition to producing
short pieces on timely topics, the series
has served as the fonder and showcase
for larger works, such as Isaac Julten's
Looking for Langston and Stuart Mar¬
shall’s Desire Although the preponder¬
ance of “talking heads* documentaries
peppered with stylish graphics may be
Out on Tuesdays weakness, the con¬
cept remains exciting and worthy of
emulation. And the talent and energy
required for a US program along the
same lines is there—in the Lookout
Festival and in the lesbian and gay
media boom in general. ▼
by Karl Soehnlein
Richard Fung defies easy
categorization. A gay man born in
Trinidad to Chinese immigrant parents.
Fung has lived most of his adult life to
Toronto. As an activist to both the gay
and Asian communities—and mostly in
the margins where the two overlap—be
has been using video as a tool of
empowerment smee his first work, Ori¬
entations, to 19M. Constructed from a
series of interviews with gay and les¬
bian Aslans, the tape gave a media
voice to a community which had never
before had one. Chinese Characters, a
look at how commercial gay pom por¬
trays Chinese men, followed in 1986. In
The Way to My Father's IVJage (1988)
and My Mother's Place (1990). Fung
explored his racial and cultural identity
through his parents' experiences. He
has also completed Steam Clean, a
safer-sex porn tape for GMHC and,
most recently, Asian Positive, a look at
HIV and the Asian community. Fung is
an articulate and engaging vjdeo-
maker, and his work is a strong
reminder that there are many gay and
lesbian ‘communities.*
KS: Were Orientations and Chi¬
nese Characters made for different
audiences?
RF: My background in community
television gave me a really strong
sense of audience. Our station manag¬
er used to say, ‘If you only reach 15
people, but those are the people who
need to see this tape, then that's good
programing.' So when I did Orienta¬
tions, I very much geared it toward gay
and lesbian Asians. Chinese Characters
deals primarily with Chinese as
opposed to Asians, but I had a sense
that it was talking also to all gay men
around the issues of pornography.
Both rapes responded very much to
political needs I saw to the community.
Chinese Characters came about
because there was a locked, polarized
debate going nowhere between certain
radical feminists who opposed pornog¬
raphy on aD grounds, not making any
distinctions between homosexual and
heterosexual—what I thought was a
very crude argument—and what I
would call libertarian gay men who
said that because gay men had been
denied access to sexual representation,
we had to support any kind of sexual
representation, no matter what it was.
As a gay man of color who was sym¬
pathetic to feminism, I saw whole
areas not being discussed. The people
I described as libertarian were all
white men and hadn't stopped to think
of how people of color related to gay
pornography, which usually excludes
us or demeans us. We wanted to cri¬
tique pornography but didn't want to
fall into a pro-censorship kind of dis¬
course, because pornography is also
FAMILY PORTRAIT—K/cW fund's My
Mother's Placs
really important. People in small towns
come to gay consciousness first by see¬
ing things like Mandate way before
they hear of gay liberation. So pornog¬
raphy serves a real function, but it
does that at the expense of a more
complex identity.
KS: The tapes you made after that
are the tapes about your family, right?
RF: Yes. In Tbe Way to My Father's
Village, I was trying to figure out this
relationship I had with China, which I
had never seen but which played such
a large pan in my sense of who I was
and other people's sense of who I was.
A lot of Western-bom Chinese have a
very complex, contradictory relation¬
ship to the country. It finds them in
spite of themselves. The tape with my
mother is, in some ways, the most
sophisticated and, in some ways, the
most mainstream, although I probably
vould like to think of it as accessible. I
r ew up in Trinidad at the point of
independence. My mother grew up
during colonialism—she’s 81 years old
now. Her ideas really reflect a colo¬
nized identity. At the same time, I
anted to scrutinize my own identity.
My mother took Super 8s of us when
we were growing up, so the tape
incorporates that, and there's stuff
about me growing up a sissy and stuff.
I had originally thought I would just
spend a little time doing that autobio¬
graphical stuff, and then I got into it
and it absorbed me more.
KS: Your most recent work deals
with AIDS.
RF. Yes. I did the HIV tape
because of the extreme level of denial
of the gay Asian community in Toron¬
to, and how it doesn't create a space
for people who are positive to come
out or to seek help or support from
their friends. I’m involved with the Gay
Asian AIDS Project and was at a safer-
sex workshop, and I was just amazed
at the way people put HIV so far away
from them and talked in a derogatory
manner about HIV, not even thinking
that someone among them may be
positive. So what I wanted to do in
Asian Positive was create a context in
which people will be
able to talk about
things and not feel iso¬
lated, to fed that there
are other people who
have experienced these
things. The tape isn't geared to give
information or talk about specific
issues around activism, but to do
something much "softer.* I fed that’s
what needs to be done now.
KS: The GMHC safer-sex tape
seems to combine the issues of Chi¬
nese Characters and Asian Positive
RF: That tape took me a long time
to do because I couldn't find Asians
who would have sex on camera, and I
think k has to do with people being
more wary about doing sexually
explicit stuff. I originally wanted to
have two East or Southeast Asian peo¬
ple doing it—two "Orientals." I
couldn’t find anyone, and it took me
months and months of promises foiling
through. In the end, I used one person
who’s Chinese and one person who’s
Indian. What I kept falling into was.
Who can fuck whom? It becomes this
kind of geometry of sexuality. How do
you work out these grids of oppres¬
sion, and how do you balance them? It
brought together for me a lot of the
issues around "countering" work.
KS: How did you solve the
dilemma?
RF: I don't think I did it in a very
satisfactory way. I had the Chinese guy
fuck the Indian guy. but the Indian
guy sits on him. I was thinking that I
was affirming the pleasure of tbe anus.
That’s how I justified «, but it’s by no
means an answer.
KS: It also raises the issue: If
you're getting fucked, does that some¬
how mean you’re in a lesser position
of control?
RF: The problem, though, is that
when I examined the erotic work fea¬
turing Asian models, "Asian" and
"anus* were always conflated. What
you're saying is true, but historically
this is the way the representation has
developed, so I couldn't just transcend
it It will always be a problem until gay
Asians make enough work to counter¬
act it, so people at least know there
are differences.
KS: Your first tape was all inter¬
views, but in later tapes you seem to
be experimenting more.
RF: I'm interested
in experimentation and
communication. One of
the reasons I'm doing
experimentation is that
traditional film language
“What I kept
falling into
was, Who can
fuck whom? It
becomes this
kind of
geometry of
sexuality. ”
carries a lot of ideological haggage with
t Tbe Cosbys is a great example of what
I mean. It uses all the terms of the domi¬
nant media, like the terms of success, of
being "good people," of the nuclear fam¬
ily, and then tries to situate a Black fami¬
ly in It It’s interesting that its become
the most popular show, because I think
that sort of average, semi-racist people
who are not Blade can like The Cosbys
and still carry around all the racist bag¬
gage in their head with their neighbors
who arc Black .
KS: Who aren't doctors and
lawyers...
RF: And who aren't in perfect fami¬
lies. At the same time, 1 have sat through
a lot of experimental film and videotapes
where 1 don’t know what's going on,
and often it makes you feel kind of
stupid. I try to balance out my own
desire for experi m entation with giving an
audience who may not be used to see¬
ing experimental work things that they
can hold on to or grasp. I always deal
with margins within the margins, like
West Indian Chinese people or gay
Asians, so I try to not be alienating. I fed
like I also have a responsibility to acti¬
vate this audience. T
A Little Leavitty
by Maria Magganti
about what k was like to come of age
Passing through New York on a sexually around the time that AIDS
nationwide book tour, author David staned, which is more or less what I
Leavitt spoke about ait, politics and his did. And certainly for people younger
recently published collection, A Place than us, for kids who are 20, they
I've Never Been. were 10 years old in I960, so I was
thinking I wanted to try to do a book
Marla Maggcnti: I heard a rumor on that I thought about it for a long
that you are writing a nonfiction book time, but I just decided that I couldn't
about AIDS and ACT UP. True or false? do k. I didn’t know enough.
David Leavitt:
Most literature about
AIDS has been about
AIDS as the great
divider between before
and after. But I was
interested in talking
BOOKS
I would love to
write a book about
ACT UP. I think some¬
day there will be a
really good book about
ACT UP, but I don’t
think I could write it. It
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has to be written by an historian, and
second of all, I don’t think anyone
could write k now.
MM: Another rumour was that
you are working on a screenplay, true?
DU Yes, I am working on a screen¬
play, an original screenplay for an AIDS
film. I am working with John
SchJesinger. It’s really hard. I didn’t
expect k to be as difficult as k is. You
have to think in a totally different way.
I’ve done a very, very rough first draft,
and rm going to go back out to Califor¬
nia to meet with John. But I never really
wanted to write a screenplay. He
approached me about k. He had read
The Lost Language of Cranes. He want¬
ed to do an AIDS film. He had these
ideas for it, and I think he’s such a
good director, I've been such an admir¬
er of his for so long, particularly Sun¬
day RJoody Sunday and Midnight Cow¬
boy thought. This b a man who real¬
ly could do thb film, because he’s very
unflinching, he’s very unafraid, and I
think he’s lived through k. He’s been
through it. he’s experienced the AIDS
crisis from very nearby—and from
inside to a great extent—and I thought.
Well, if I can write thb script, and he
can make k into a good film, then that's
something I would like to do.
Lost language has been optioned,
and it’s being done by the BBC in
England, but that’s a whole different
project. I’m not writing anything for
that one.
Among my ambitions for this
film—and thb b what’s difficult about
working on the screenplay—l wanted
k to be a very intimate film, something
that was about people before it was
about AIDS. At the same time, I really
wanted to get in the politics, and I
really wanted the film to have some
sex because that was my major com¬
plaint about Longtime Companion,
that it was a completely anti-sex
movie. So trying to negotiate all those
desires b difficult because, on the one
hand, you don’t want to be propagan¬
dists, and, on the other hand, you
want to get the information across
I think what I’m learning b that
you can go from idea to character,
which is, to create a character to
express an idea, and that never works.
AT HOME —Author David Leavitt
What you have to do is create the
characters and let the ideas come out
naturally. It’s difficult in a screenplay
to figure out how to get the informa¬
tion across without people getting lec¬
tures, add that’s the hard part. But I’m
figuring it out.
I do see this project as being more
his (Schlesinger’sj than mine because
he has such a strong directorial vision,
and a lot of the best stuff in his films
comes from him. So what I want to
write would be a screenplay that is
son of a guide for him. I really think
he is so incredible. I'm grateful to have
gotten to know him because he is an
extraordinary man.
MM: As a young gay man and a
published author, you serve as a kind
of cultural voice in the mainstream
press and elsewhere, and I wanted to
ask you if that put pressure on you in
terms of your relationship with the rest
of the community. And, on an unrelat¬
ed matter, there isn't a lesbian equiva¬
lent to a David Leavitt in the publish¬
ing world. I wondered what your take
on this is?
DL: Early on, I made the decision
that 1 had to be absolutely and totally
out. There was no choice for me about
that. Not only in my writing but in my
sort of public life. I continue to feel
that as a principle. However, I think it’s
important for me to make a distinction
between myself as a sort of public fig¬
ure and myself as a writer. The reason I
make that distinction is because I fed a
lot of obligations as a person. I fed that
1 am obligated to be politically active, I
fed I am obligated to address a lot of
things in my writing, since I'm given
the opportunity to do so in terms of
nonfiction. However, I don't fed any of
those obligations in terms of writing fic¬
tion because I think that as a fiction
writer, you've got to be—a friend of
mine put it this way: Your only obliga¬
tion is to write well. And Grace Paley
once said: To write politically is merely
to tell the truth in fiction. So I'm always
sort of careful to make that distinction,
because I do think it's dangerous to
start seeking *role models" in fiction,
because then you look to fiction as you
would to a kind of propaganda, and I
think it's simply important for writers to
be able in their fiction to tell the truth,
even if the truth isn't pretty, or even if
“I get sick of
being asked
‘Why do you
always write
about gay
characters?’ as
if anyone
would ever
ask John
Updike, ‘Why
do you always
write about
straight
people?’”
it isn't what people want to hear.
As far as the The New York Times is
concerned, I have this weird position
vis-a-vis The New York Times I am the
person they call when they want some¬
thing written from a sort of leftist gay
perspective, and I don't know how I
fed about that, or why they don't ask
other people. But the fact of the matter
a that as long as they're calling me, I
fed an obligation to say yes, because
as long as I have that platform, I want
to use it responsibly. So I did that piece
on the NEA, and I will continue to do
things like that and to sort of use the
position that I have to try to talk about
these political issues. Grace Paley has
been sort of a role model for me
because she’s a writer who's managed
to maintain her identity as a writer and
her identity as a leftist, and that’s some¬
thing 1 try to emulate.
As for your question that there is
no lesbian equivalent...I have no
romantic illusions about the publishing
Industry or the media. It's all about
money. In I960, Mi chad Denneny and
Bill Whitehead started publishing books
by gay men. and they proved that it
was profitable, so the publishing indus¬
try said, "Oh. money** and they started
publishing gay men. By and large, the
mainstream publishing industry has not
made the same realization about les¬
bians. I think they're crazy, because my
sense is that It Is very profitable. I mean,
Sarah Schulman is one of the few writ¬
ers who sells incredibly well, compara¬
tively speaking, but she doesn't get the
kind of publicity, and she doesn't get
taken seriously, even within the pub¬
lishing community, in the way I do.
MM: Why do you think this is?
DL: I think it's all sexism. It’s hard
to believe that anything would interfere
with thinking about profit, but Naiad
Press and other lesbian presses sell a
lot of books, and you would think that
one of these big publishers would kind
of get with it. They did, to a certain
extent, with [editor] Carole De Sand at
Dutton, but then she got fired, she and
everybody else. But it doesn't have to
necessarily be a lesbian editor. For
example, all the gay books at Plume—
the two editors who handle them are
straight. But it all comes down to recog¬
nizing that this is something worth
doing, and I don't think they perceive it
as such. Sarah iSchulmanl and Rita Mac
Brown art kind of it
I think that the problem there is
no* only the gay issue, but there's sex¬
ism involved and the fact that it's a lot
harder for women writers anyway. I
also think because there is a greater
amount of homophobia about lesbian¬
ism in that area than there is about
male homosexuality. There’s kind of an
accepted role in the literary world for
gay men, and I don't think there is for
lesbians. But I'm pretty confident that it
will change. Someone will come out of
the woodwork and take over that role.
MM: What do you think of the
gay press—your relationship to it, writ¬
ing for it, being written about by it, at
this particular moment, at the begin¬
ning of the ‘90s?
DL: Well, 1 haven't written a lot for
the gay press, and primarily it’s because
I'm not basically a journalist. I do pieces
like that when people ask me to. The
gay press never asks me to do stuff, but
who knows why But I have certainly
been interviewed by the gay press a lot,
and I think there's a real revolution
going on in the gay press, just in the
last year or two. I love, and I know this
is kind of stupid to say in an interview
in OulWeek, but I love OutWeek. I
mean, there are problems, it’s still grow¬
ing. but basically 1 find it really interest¬
ing. really challenging. It’s controversial,
k doesn't accept any kind of status quo.
it takes big rides, and it isn't sort of so
pc that it ends up being totally boring
A lot of the smaller newspapers across
the country still have that feeling to
some extent. What I think is happening
is that, in the past, the gay community
was much less political, and the people
who were political were political in a
certain style, and what's happening
now is that many, many more voices
are getting tn, many more people are
getting politicized, and as they become
politicized, you start seeing all different
kinds of styles of being political, and
you don’t have the kind of narrow¬
minded attitude or narrow definition of
what one ought to be if one is gay that
you used to have. There’s an openness
to all different kinds of experience.
Of course, the other big difference.
M THE STREETS —ACT UP'S Burroughs
Wskcome Demonstration. September 1989
56
which, I think, is the most exciting is the
fact that it is gay men and lesbians, and
that’s great. It’s so great. It’s recognizing
a common ground, whereas before, the
two communities were so separate.
MM: Your story 'Gravity* is the
first one to deal explicitly with a PWA
and AIDS in your work. I remember
that you had been criticized before for
not writing about AIDS. People said,
'How can you write about gay life and
not write about AIDS?* What allowed
you to write this story at this time?
DL: I had to wait until the right
story happened, and as it stands, I find
AIDS really, really hard to write about in
fiction—it’s much harder in fiction than
in nonfiction. I don't know why that is. I
think it’s because the two things one
wants to describe are
loss and bravery, and
loss and bravery are
really hard to do in fic¬
tion without seeming
banal. I've read some
brilliant examples of this, but IYe read a
lot of stories of men slowly wasting
away and dying, and I don't want to
write that—1 don't want to hear that
anymore. I know it can be done bril¬
liantly, but I want to hear something
ebe. The problem is, even though I say,
'I want to hear something ebe,' I don't
quite know how to do it
MM: After readrrg *My Marriage to
Vfcngeanoe,' the story of a lesbian's visit to
her ex-lover’s wedding and liking < very
mud), I am hoping we may sec more les¬
bians in your writing I'm interested in
how we transmit our (Merer* experiences
as gay men and lesbians to each other,
especially as we are together more and
mare. You are pan of that small crowd of
who do say ‘gay men and lesbians.'
Your public self does at
least allow you to get die
DL: All my best
friends my whole life
have been lesbians. My
rn
Home Away
From Home
A PLACE I’VE NEVER BEEN by David Leavitt. Viking. $18.95 cL 194 pp.
best ftiend since I was 9 yean old is a
lesbian. I wrote that story because I had
been to a lot of weddings and always
[sat] in the 'weird’ comer. I wrote it
because I knew a lot of people who
were going through things like this, and
I think that fiction is all about empathy,
and it's all about point of view, and it's
about putting yourself in the skin of
someone who is different from you. So, I
decided this is something I want to do.
Now, interestingly, when this story was
first published in Mother Jones, there was
quite a negative reaction from a lot of
lesbians who were not so much com¬
plaining about me, though some of them
did, but most of them felt that it was
really unfair of Mother Jones that the first
story they should ever publish about les¬
bians was by a man. And they have a
point, they have a real point 1 mean. I
feel as though Mother Jones kind of
fucked up. I think it would have been
better for them to publish a story by a
lesbian. They're a progressive magazine,
and they have taken on that role.
The book I am now starting will
have lesbians In It, and that's not a
choice—that is just a reflection of my
own internal reality and my imagination,
and it's fascinating. I suppose for me
that writing about lesbians is a way of
writing about being gay and getting
away from myself at the same time. Fic¬
tion for me is all about finding out what
people have in common and what they
don't have in common. Basically, there's
more in common than not There is no
'normal" point of view anymore—that is
a totally outdated notion. I get sick of
being asked, "Why do you always write
about gay characters?* as if anyone
would ever ask John Updike, "Why do
you always write about straight people?*
I don't know what it's going to take, but
my sense of the matter is that over the
next ten, years there's going to be more
and more literature from the so-called
minorities, because the demographics of
the country are changing 1 think anoth¬
er change that we're noticing in gay
and lesbian literature is that, whereas
ten years ago most, especially gay
male writers, were very much writing
for a gay audience, I think people are
doing that less and less. 1 think they
arc writing for a wider, larger audi¬
ence—the idea being that even
though writing may have a sexuality,
reading doesn't. T
by Christopher Davis
Many of the themes, and some of
the characters, in Mr. Leavitt's new
story collection, A Place I've Never
Been, appeared in his earlier works.
We first met Celia, along with the gay
couple Nathan and Andrew, In the
story ‘Dedicated* from Family Dane -
Ing. In ‘Dedicated,’ Celia is over¬
weight—*On land, she lumbers, her
body is heavy and ungainly and must
be covered with dank swatches of fab¬
ric, with loose skirts and saris*—unhap¬
py, and in love with both Nathan and
Andrew, although she realizes that nei¬
ther of them can love her in return.
Although Mr. Leavitt could have easily
left her as a stereotypical ’fag hag* (an
Insulting term for everyone concerned,
but there is no other), he does not; his
analysis of her feelings and motivations
is thoughtful and instructive.
We meet Celia again, years later,
both in narrative time and real time,
in the first and title story of Mr. Leav¬
itt's new collection. Nathan is still
around and still disltkable, but Celia
has lost weight, has begun to see her¬
self as attractive and to consider rela¬
tionships with straight men and, best
of all, is becoming independent from
Nathan's never-ending need for sym¬
pathetic consolation. I think that read¬
ers who do not know the earlier story
will miss much, but even on its own it
is convincing.
We meet Celia a final time in one
of the major stories of this collection,
*1 See London, I see France." It Is a
few years after *A Place I’ve Never
Been,* and Celia is finally a complete
person on her own, settling in Italy
with a male lover, living a life better
than any she had ever dared dream of.
It is a woven, com¬
plex, mature story, and
at the‘end, Celia real¬
izes that it will be a
long time, if ever,
before she is able to
reconcile and merge
the fantasy life she is now living with
the reality she believes is herself. That
the reader questions which reality is
truly 'real* adds to the effectiveness of
the story.
Much of Mr. Leavitt's earlier writing
is about families—heterosexual
ones—in various states of decay or
ruin. In Family Dancing, families are
destroyed by marital infidelities, by ter¬
minal illnesses, by the revelations of the
homosexuality of children, husbands,
fathers. The Lost Language of Cranes
(which, if you haven't read it, refers to
building equipment, not birds) again
concentrates on the theme of the
destruction of the family, this time
through the revelation of the homosex¬
uality of both a son and a father/hus¬
band; and his third book. Equal Affec¬
tions, continues the theme, this time
through the illness and death of the
mother and the infidelities of the father.
Families are also important in A
Place I've Never Been. Celia and her
lover, in the story previously men¬
tioned, are visiting a wealthy, decadent
expatriate family that is collapsing
under its own weight. Everyone is
spoiled; no one works, no one has ever
had to work. As one character says,
about Celia's former job as a proofread¬
er and copy editor, "Any kind of work
sounds glamorous to me, never having
done any myself.* And the most ambi¬
tious story of the collection, ‘Roads to
Rome.* is about an extended family so
complex it takes a careful reading to
follow it all. Everyone is gathered in a
house in the Italian countryside to pay
their respects to a thoroughly dislikable
96-year-old woman, who, if there were
any justice, would have been dead a
long time ago. One of the characters in
this bizarre story was a
gay coprop hagist who
committed suicide; "My
son was a strange
young mat* He liked
to wear dresses and
eat shit." Indeed.
Much of Mr.
Leavitt’s
earlier writing
is about
families—
heterosexual
ones—
in various
states of
decay or
ruin.... Families
are also
important in
A Place I've
Mr Leavin'* theme of the destruc¬
tion of the family through the rrvda-
of homosexuality o continued in t
painful story, "Houses,* where a man
leaves his wife for another man, returns
to his wife and then leaves again, but
too late because the other man has
found someone else. One of the stories
in this collection follows earlier work
very carefully. In ‘Spouse Night,* a
curious story that I didn't tike at first
but do now, we find a different version
of what happened after the mother's
death in Equal Affections. (Perhaps this
story was written before the novel)
As is always the case in story col¬
lections, I liked some stories better
than others. My favorite was ‘Gravity,*
a tiny story that begins: Theo had a
choice between a drug that would
save his sight and drug that would
keep him alive, so he chose not to go
blind. He stopped the pills and started
the injections—these required the
implantation of an unpleasant and
painful catheter just above the
heart—and within a few days the
cloud In his eyes started to dear up.
He could see again.* The story con¬
tains a wonderful, and unexpected,
affirmation of life, and was, I thought,
just about perfect
My least favorite of the collection
was ‘AYOR,* which first appeared in
Men on Men 2. I’m not certain what
it's about, but the ‘bad* promiscuous
gay man gets his punishment in the
form of rape and general unhappi¬
ness. The ‘good* character doesn’t
seem all that happy, either, however,
so I’m not sure what the point was.
There is also a trite throwaway enti¬
tled *Chip6 Is Here,* which I thought
was far inferior to the rest of the col¬
lection and totally out of place.
I realize, however, that writing is
more than the sum of its ports; it is
more than themes, character, lan¬
guage. locales. To be effective, it has
to be alive; it has to have a com¬
pelling life of its own. This is a high
standard, but one by which a writer
of Mr. Leavitt's talent—and reputa¬
tion-must be judged. A Place I've
Never Been mostly passes this test,
and the writing itself is always direct
and unmannered. Although eight of
the ten stories were previously pub¬
lished, and I had read several of
them, they were almost all worth
reading again. Mr. Leavitt is perhaps
our finest gay writer, a statement I do
not make lightly. I look forward to
Us future work.V
Leave or Die
by Aaaotto Saint
next time
under cover of darkness
or high noon
someone shouts "fuckin' faggot*
fists fly
out of your pocket
unclasp a safety pin
prick your finger quick
blood spurts
queeriy ask "lookin' for aids'
dare stand brave
remember this land is home
aim free
Assoao Saint's last book of poems was
Stations. His last theater piece was
New Love Song. ▼
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bi. and gay adrrwtr*. alto open TUE-SAT night) 167 W 29; 8664989
Mee ata r (Sundty Taa Oanca et 4 pm; dancing ttso on other n#ght* from
10 pm) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3567
♦ Pate* (Shatc ape Tee Dances tor Women, 7 pm • rmdnight, $6 before 8
pnVS7 after) 226 E 54 St (2nd/3rd Aveah Wo 845-6479
A Py ra mid [Scream, DJa Patrick and Aaron, host torsos; SS) 101 Avanua
A btwn 47 Streets; 420-1590
♦Rex (Jenny's BirlBar. DJ dancing. 8 pm • midnight $5} 579 8th Ava
(1417 Sts); 741-0080
Roxy (A Broovy Kind of Love) SIS W18 Sc 845-5158
2ROO (Michael Feecoli Taa Dance, opens 5 pm; $6; free Mimosas 4 BMs
Irom 5-7, buffet at 73Ct ao longer tells Mrifer) 20 W 20 St 7274841
Every Night (or almost)
♦ Bedrock (lesbian club, closed MON 4 TUE) 121W
Hsmpstaad. LI; 514465-8616
♦ Due bats II (smaB dancs floor) Sheridan Squara 4 7th Ava; 242-1408
418 (ntghtty Gey House Party, opens 8 pm) 419 N. Hghwey (Rta 27).
Southampton. U; 514263-5001
Grand Central (cloaad Mon, 2-4-1 drinks Thursday) 210 Merrick Rood.
RockviBe Centra, U. 514535-4800
Magic Touch (ethnic mix; Angk*tet*VA**in) 73-13 37th Rd. Jackson
Height*, Quaant. 714429-8805
Memtar (Wait Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 824-3557
Spectru m (good mix of gay man 4 ietbians; closed Mon-Tua, WE0 free.
THU has 4 2-4-1 drinks. FRI mala/lam*4* strippers. SAT recording
sun. SUN vinery show 4 fra* admittion 9-10 pm; Coon served!
il Wood fie Id Rd. W.
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Bwtwy Coast. 64 7th Awe. |14th StL 675-0385
The Break. 232 8th Ave. (22nd St). 627-0072.
Chetaee Transfer. 131 8th Aw. (bet. Ifthi 17thJ.
929-7183
Eegfe* Nest. 14211th Aw (21st StJ. 691-8451
Privets Eyes. 12 W. 21** St (bet. 5th & 6th).
206-7770
Rawhide. 212 8th Aw.. (21st StL unlisted
Spite. 12011th Aw. 243-9688
Duchess B. 70 Grow St{7t»AwL 242-1406 (Ww*n|
Duflout. 185 Christopher St. 242-9113 (lormerty
the Ramrod)
Eighty Eights. 228W10 St. 924-0008
The Hangout (Xil 675 Hufeon St, 242-9292
•hilius. 159W. 10th St. 929-9672
Keier’s, 384 West St (at Christopher!. 243-1907
Wty* Village West 46 Bedford Si. 929-9322
Marie's Crisis. 59 Grow St (7th Aw). 243-9323
The Monster. 80 Grow St (7tf» Aw.). 924-3558
Don't Tell Mama. 343 W. 46th St. 757-0788
Gents. 360 W42 St (9lh Awl. 967-0658
Salty* Hideaway. 264 W. 43 St. 221 -9152
Town & Country. 9th Aw at 46th St. 307-1503
Trfa. 246 W. 48 St (Bweyflth Awl. 664-8331
Tht Works. 428 Columbus Ave (at 81st),
799-7365
EAST SIDE _
Bogans. 320 E 58th St, 688-8534
WEST VILLAGE
Badlands. Christopher & West St. 741-9236
Boots & Saddle. 76 Christopher Sl. 929-9684
Celiblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144 (j.o. club,
open on a runted basis, call for into)
The Cubbyhole. 438 Hudson (Morton St).
243-9079
Crwy Nanny's. 21 7th Avenue South, 366-6312
(Women)
D.T.* Fat Cat 281 W. 12th St. 243-9041
New Jimmy’s. 53 Christopher. 463-0960
Ninth Circle. 139 W. 10th St. 243-9204
Sneakers. 392 West St, 242-9630.
Two Potato. 145 Christopher St. 242-9340.
Tyt, 114 Christopher. 741 9641
Unde Charlie's. 56 Greenwich Aw, 255-8787
WEST SIDE _
Candle Bat. 309 Amsterdam Aw, 874-9155
Cart. 730 8th Aw, 221-7569
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Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Aw, 686-6298
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Tunnel Bar. 116 In Aw (7th StL 777-9232
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Spectrum. 802 64th St (at 8th Awl 745-9611
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Dr. Charles Silverstein
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Sandostto, 86 Mill* Am.. (718) 447-3365
accepting
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Confident of gay voting power in
Manhattan. Sherrill, a political science
professor at Hunter College who has
been following the rediatricting process
since Its inception, is concerned with the
ability of non-gay districts to elect gay-
friendly straight politicians
There is no question that electing
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had disagreed over ATR's mission.
While Long reportedly sought to
move the 2-year-old group, recendy re¬
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cals, Machon and others looked to ex¬
pand ATR’s provision of AIDS treatment
information.
Long, who turned down a position
as ATR's scientific director, will remain
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entific advisory committee. The former¬
ly all-volunteer ACT UP spin off now
employs four full-time staffers. "ATR
wants to move toward outreach and
education, particularly among minorities
and women," said Machon. The group
will continue to publish its directory
and guide to clinical trials.
Other executive directors who have
left their Jobs in the post year are: Craig
Davidson of Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation; GMHCs Jeffrey
Braff; Rober^ Brading of the now-defunct
Fund for Human Dignity; FAIRFACs Can¬
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State Lesbian and Gay Lobby; Barbara
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